"Yet another devastating earthquake, I was so scared and..."
"Right, we the people have learned fear but the government has not learned anything has it!"
"Well in 2005 we had the dictator Musharraf and he was at the peak of his power with no one, but no one, challenging it while now Mian sahib heads a civilian government..."
"At least he has a coterie of civilian federal ministers and..."
"Hang on didn't Musharraf have his own coterie of civilian federal ministers?"
"But that was not kosher, he lured them into abandoning their civilian leaders while..."
"Oh and Mian sahib doesn't make use of threats and cajoling and..."
"OK got it, granted there is a difference between 2005 and 2015 in who is in power, my contention is that the government didn't learn anything from the past earthquake because there was no budgetary allocation for natural disasters and let's be honest natural disasters be they floods or in this case an earthquake are now almost an annual feature and require planning and allocations which in the event they are not used can be diverted and.."
"There is another lesson not learned with respect to natural disasters."
"Well if you are going to say that mitigating measures are not taken including relocating those who live along the fault lines...."
"No I meant that our leaders do not cut short their foreign visits just because there has been a natural disaster."
"Mian sahib came back yesterday - less than one day after the earthquake..."
"But the official visit to the US ended Friday didn't it, OK so he stayed one more day perhaps but surely there was no justification for stopping in London."
"His son lives there."
"But couldn't he have returned the same day as the earthquake."
"Mian sahib says he will monitor rescue and relief operations himself..."
"How? He needs to be physically present and..."
"The communications revolution my friend, you don't have to be physically present to..."
"Right the only time you need to be physically present in the country is when you form the government, take oath, and wait for the next invitation from a foreign government with stops where one's children may be resident and..."
"You are being facetious."