"There is something about businessmen who are elected as head of government that I admire."
"Really, and here I was thinking that all the liberals that I know don't admire businessmen turned heads of government."
"You have to give credit where it's due. I mean even if I had tried hard I would not have been able to do what Trump did or indeed what Nawaz Sharif is engaged in."
"Hmmm, comparing a Pakistani former head of government with a US current head of government..."
"Since 2017 would be referred to as the winter of amendments, I would like to amend what you said: Pakistani technically former but realistically ongoing prime minister."
"Don't be facetious; anyway, Trump came up with a South Asia policy that left no one happy."
"I know we Pakistanis are rightly angered because his perception of truth is different from ours (cross border terrorism is applicable on both sides of the border), but who else did he alienate?"
"The Indians who were praised as a democracy and for their efforts to develop Afghanistan, but Trump said the Indians need to give a lot more in terms of dollars to Afghanistan and frankly I don't think that sat well with the Modi government; and then there is Ghani who is not going to receive any US assistance, money that was keeping him in business, but he will be supplied with a few more US soldiers who needless to add won a few wars but no lasting victory when their numbers were a lot more..."
"But you forget one thing: Trump never gave a time line for anything so there!"
"Ha ha, that's true. And he didn't give the number of additional US troops so it could be one."
"Ha ha ha. But with respect to our businessman Prime Minister..."
"Incidentally, he replaced himself with another businessman prime minister whose company Air Blue buys a lot of petroleum..."
"And there you have it. The most appropriate man to be appointed first as the Petroleum Minister and now as the Energy Minister and Prime Minister."
"Ha ha ha, but anyway Mian sahib first messed up the Panama case, I mean he should have agreed to the parliamentary committee when the PPP suggested it and all other parties agreed but that was rejected, then he should have resigned before the verdict, I mean there was a time when it was clear what the verdict would be..."
"Ah, and now the refusal to go to NAB when summoned and this is a NAB headed by their man..."
"Well, the bad policy is continuing: bad mouthing the judiciary that is going to monitor what NAB does and..."
"All I can say is long live Chaudhry Nisar!"
"His advice still won't be heeded - he and First Daughter are proposing diametrically opposite line of action and Mian sahib's heart has always prevailed on his mind."
"Indeed."