Partly Facetious: No honour among thieves

21 Oct, 2016

"There is honour among thieves."
"Isn't the expression there is no honour among thieves."
"Good point. I guess in Pakistani politics it all depends on who is leading the thieves."
"But what is this comment in aid of?"
"The use of language by the Long Time Sindh Governor, for the first time ever, convinces me that he has been trained by the Founder?"
"Which party are you referring to? The Khan is the Founder of his party and Mian sahib is the Founder of his, I mean it's not for nothing that his party bears his name, his first name not last and I am addressing the First Brother here..."
"And as a member of the growing Shahbaz Qalandar group, that is still not out in the open, let me tell the Prime Minister that the party is an old one and he represents merely a faction and a hyphen can be easily replaced and..."
"I don't get you."
"It can become PML-S."
"Surely you jest?"
"Today's jest maybe tomorrow's political reality, or this is what I have learned after being a student of Pakistani politics for a long time..."
"You are so bad, anyway going back to honour or its lack thereof and thieves, the Sindh Governor came out really bad - I mean if he claims that Mustafa Kamal is bipolar then why use negative adjectives for his personality - bipolar is a disease and.."
"True and then claim that Kamal was kicked out of the party in 2014, claiming he knew this as an insider, and then wasn't resigning and got scared and left the country and..."
"Fear and the lifting of fear can change a personality."
"Right and the perception that the threat which fuelled the fear may be present but its exact degree perceived differently..."
"And in ascending order of threat perception let me identify the three post-22nd October MQM - Mustafa Kamal (least), Farooq Sattar and last Dr Ishratul Ibad (he claimed on television that the Founder is his mohsin or his benefactor."
"And what about MQM London?"
"No change there I guess."
"Don't be facetious, but why didn't Ibad ignore Kamal as he used to ignore the Founder's periodic tirades?"
"You are dumb, because of fear of losing the Governorship..."
"But isn't 14 to 15 years in a job enough, I mean..."
"Nope, not that job."

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