“Twenty-seventh amendment proposes some changes and…”
“Excuse me, but if the parliament approves anything it’s OK by me.”
“Spoken like a true Isaist.”
“Isaist?”
“Qazi Faez Isa.”
“Well selected — the man who retired and the only thing he retained of his former power is the title with a retired added on which defuses all the power held, past tense.”
“Don’t be facetious, I actually believe what I said. You know there is a massive rise in right support in the West…”
“The right is still not in power in the West — all other parties with widely divergent views on politics and economics have banded together to keep the right wing out of power.”
“But that is allowed in democracy, isn’t it. We, too, have…”
“There are some differences….”
“Don’t care about those, my point: our parliament represents political parties that are keeping one party out, like in the West, and that is A-OK!”
“What does the A stand for? Asif Ali….”
“Don’t be facetious.”
“I really want to know. By the way, the current Western leadership does not represent the will of their own public….”
“Am I allowed to comment?”
“Better not – I am talking geopolitics, and you are talking…talking rubbish.”
“OK, so the A in A OK stands for…”
“Wait, I have it, it’s the ain, the twenty-fourth letter of the Urdu alphabet, of much significance to the Third Wife of the Man Who Must Remain…”
“No, it means it’s basic, ground reality, A as in the start of the narrative.”
“Hmmmm.”
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