PARTLY FACETIOUS: Are we going to make a party of the Geneva event?

“I am giving a party tomorrow.”

“I hope I am invited!”

“Well yes you are, the party is at your house so I guess you just have to come on down….”

“Why can’t you have the party at your house?”

“Well a party leaves a lot of cleaning up in its wake so, how shall I put it, it’s better to have it in your house.”

“Better for you not for me.”

“How many times do I have to tell you –– the glass as half full silly.”

“I don’t understand, why in the world….”

“Hey I am drawing a leaf from the notebook of our Prime Minister. The signing of the Iran deal would be in Geneva and the host would be the Pakistani negotiating team which means the leadership of our civilian and military….”

“Will we pick up the tab? I mean Swiss authorities are not going to do a Pakistan will they?”

“Excuse me!?”

“I mean are they going to close all streets leading to the venue however far away, they are not going to empty the hotels of all guests, they are not going….”

“But do you think the hotel won’t charge us, you know the hotels in Pakistan did not charge….”

“I heard the event this Friday would be co-hosted and the Pakistan Cricket Board will pick up….”

“Will you shut up, you know our Prime Minister pays for his own travel, the taxpayers’ don’t, and you know that he has the resources to….”

“Right sorry I was merely being facetious. And if President Trump is going to attend then it would be politic for our senior-most civilian and military leadership to attend, to further cement the friendship.”

“Gotcha. Are we going to make a party of the event do you think?”

“Well one could invite the G-7 heads of government….”

“Apart from the US the other G-7 members no longer represent the militarily or the economically most powerful. I suggest we invite President Xi and Putin, the ones who….”

“Great idea – we can start expanding our mediating….”

“Precisely.”

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