"Deputy Superintendent of Police Rajab Ali has been jailed for 12 years and will pay a fine of 10.4 million rupees for having assets beyond the source of his income."
"How much beyond?"
"Well, they have traced 17 million rupees worth of assets and there is speculation that he has more."
"Hey, a court of law cannot punish anyone on speculation."
"True, but a low level functionary pays such a heavy price in our country and the politicians go free."
"Excuse me!"
"I said..."
"I heard, but you are so very wrong... Zardari sahib spent 11 years in jail."
"Right, but he got to keep 60 million dollars. That's about 6 million dollars a year for each year in jail. And many of the jail years were spent in Dr Asim Hussain's hospital room or so I have been told."
"There is no court verdict against him."
"In Switzerland..."
"He is not Swiss and the proof is that he has not spent even one day in Switzerland post 2008?"
"But he commutes between Dubai, England, the US..."
"Why doesn't he stay in Pakistan? What happened to Friends of Democratic Pakistan and we love Pakistanis and..."
"Our politicians love Pakistani voters and that my friend is democracy. Besides those dratted friends never put money where their mouth was, or not all of them, and those who did wanted a pound of flesh which Zardari sahib was not willing to give, especially not in an election year, though Dar sahib is."
"Dar sahib was also in jail but for a very short time, apparently he couldn't stand it and signed an affidavit..."
"Oh dear, here we go again."
"Anyway Dar lent 40 crore rupees to his son and he made that amount not as the accountant of the Sharif family but working for the UAE royal family at more than a million dollars a month, even the US President doesn't make that much, and this doesn't include what he spent while in Dubai..."
"You know Arabs are a generous race and as we say in Urdu doston ka dost - or friends of friend."
"I have no Arab friends."
"It shows."