"Better late than never, I say."
"I agree though Mian sahib could have gone to the French embassy to condole the Friday atrocity in Paris the next day."
"He goes to Lahore every weekend so I would assume he wasn't in the capital on Saturday or Sunday."
"What about Monday? Why didn't he go on Monday?"
"He was preparing his speech at the road show."
"I thought the road-show experts were Zubair and Dar."
"Get your facts straight."
"I have them straight - isn't Zubair of the Privatisation Commission and Dar of the Finance Ministry taking frequent trips to world capitals to sell off our family silver and euro bond/sukuk?"
"For the life of me I can't understand why they need to go abroad to sell profitable shares of public sector entities which are all the Z man has sold to-date, or indeed to sell bonds/sukuk at double the available world rates which is Dar's domain..."
"Hey your teeth are showing again."
"But true no!"
"Anyway when I said get your facts straight I wasn't referring to the need for road shows but for your flawed listing."
"I didn't list anything."
"Yes you did you said Zubair and Dar - now you know who is the boss and surely his name must be before the appointees!?"
"Don't be facetious anyway when I referred to Mian sahib's roads show I wasn't referring to the Dar/Zubair type of road show I was referring to Mian sahib type of road show namely inaugurating the construction of a road."
"Mian sahib is a road man, while Dar is a loan man...not a loan shark because a loan shark would make sure he gave a loan at high rates not get a loan at a high rate..."
"Maybe we need to redefine loan shark in our context."
"Nah let it be but we could use the term loan seeker or LS for Dar."
"LS could also stand for Lamentable Selector I mean granted the guy changes his team based on not their but his own poor performance and..."
"Shush...perhaps more appropriate for LS would be Love the Sharif."
"Agreed."