“Uh oh.”
“You know no one gets to meet the Supreme Leader.”
“Excuse me?”
“Interior Minister will only get an appointment with his counterpart or with their Foreign Minister…..”
“Why didn’t our Foreign Minister go?”
“Because F is subordinate to the DP.”
“What???”
“The F or Foreign is subordinate to Deputy Prime.”
“Right so what was he busy with while the Interior Minister was in Iran?”
“He is not answerable to the likes of you, silly.”
“Right anyway F or DP the fact is that he has far less standing domestically or internationally relative to….”
“Right in the words of the Wise – the Interior Minister has the credentials to be a prime minister.”
“Without any political base….”
“I disagree with your implied definition. A base rooted in the public is not a requirement and…”
“I give up anyway when I said uh oh I wasn’t referring to…to…all this. I was referring to the obvious manifestation of the erosion of the pervasive influence of the Third Wife on the Man Who Must Remain Nameless and Faceless.”
“What do you mean?”
“Akbar the lawyer, a founding member of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf, ideologically in synch with the party agenda, has been tasked by the Man Who Must Remain Nameless and Faceless to engage with all the disgruntled party members…..”
“Oh my God, you mean rather than the Third Wife who….who…..reportedly developed a yearning for the absolutely outstanding gifts that can be had if you are the Wife of a Pakistani Prime Minister on a visit to a Gulf state….”
“That could upset the applecart — I would suggest to the powers that be to allow a visit between the husband and wife on a regular basis.”
“And if she wants to cook for him and chant…”
“You really don’t know when to stop do you.”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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