"So 48 million dollar indemnity bond, hunh! I mean that is a prohibitively large sum and..."

"The Khan and his four to five original team members reckon that Nawaz Sharif made more than that by abusing his office by getting commissions for award of government contracts or changing the statutory regulatory orders to enable duty-free import of scrap and credited the amount in favour of his children and..."

"Original team members?"

"I would define the original team as those who stood with him before he became a likely candidate for the position of prime minister."

"Oh dear, but surely they are more than four to five?"

"Not in his cabinet - there is Fawad Chaudhry who may have done some frog-like hopping from one party to another, but much less than... than say the kangaroo-like hopping by Firdous Ashiq Awan, and other cabinet members... OK, OK, he is younger and still has time to improve his hopping skills but personally I agree with him on more issues than not; there is Murad Saeed, an innocent-looking firebrand Khanzadeh through and through, there is Gandapur who incidentally should really take a quick course from Sherry Rehman on how to blow dry long lustrous hair..."

"Don't be facetious, besides The Khan needs non-emotional, logical defenders of the indemnity bond policy..."

"Nawaz Sharif is a very emotional subject for the diehard Khanzadehs - they were beaten up by the PML-N-run Punjab police and the Gullu Butts and..."

"I get it, but as the government they need to be more sane and logical then when they were in the opposition and Shah Mehmud Qureshi, perhaps is the best sane logical non-emotional defender of the government's policies; he said that Nawaz Sharif should go abroad, that the bond was proposed by the Law Ministry under the guidance of the Minister and that if it is not lawful it can be challenged and..."

"You are trying to get him fired!"

"No, I swear..."

"Don't swear, it's not polite... Anyway where did our Marie Antoinette stand in the discussion?"

"Our First Lady is not engaged in..."

"Good heavens I didn't mean her, I meant Hafeez Sheikh - didn't he get the price of tomatoes wrong by over 250 rupee per kg? And didn't Marie Antoinette get it wrong when she said if the poor don't have bread they can eat cakes..."

"Ha ha, that's right, but isn't controlling inflation the main responsibility of the other selected economic team leader Baqir?"

"Baqir says don't ask him the price of vegetables."

"Oh dear Lord, deliver us, your people, from such selected economic, not czars, what is the opposite of czars?"

"An elected prime minister."

"There you go."