PARTLY FACETIOUS: The police of a province comes under the chief minister

“The Lady took my advice!”

“Which lady?”

“The Chief Minister Punjab.”

“The only person she listens to is her daddy and granted that daddy has not been seen or heard for quite some time yet, if memory does not fail me, you are not Mian Nawaz Sharif.”

“Mian sahib’s recent departure from public view is…is the opposite of another family member, by marriage that is!”

“Dar sahib is even more on the news than his…his…what is his relationship to the Prime Minister? I mean we, as a people, value relationships – we even have a word for the fathers of a couple – samdhis and…”

“Let’s put it this way he refers to the Prime Minister as Younger Brother. Anyway the reason why Dar sahib was more on the news is because Shehbaz Sharif stopped in London on a private visit, maybe to see his doctor, while Dar sahib went on to New York where he was shown shaking hands with Pakistani staff.”

“So what happened to the official plane – did it stop in London or did it take Dar sahib to…”

“None of your business anyway Maryam Nawaz did listen to my advice. She deflected media attention successfully and no one is talking of the jet.”

“Oh I see by detaining three of the sisters of the Man Who Must Remain Nameless, Voiceless and Faceless.”

“I thought that decision was taken by….”

“I am talking technically and technically the police of a province comes under the chief minister.”

“Did you inform the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister of this?”

“Don’t be facetious. Anyway all talk of the jet has ceased hasn’t it!”

“Yes but there are three long marches scheduled to arrive in the capital this week and they too are deflecting attention from the jet - the Jammat-i-Islami is seeking a massive reduction of the petroleum levy and suggesting other taxes as well as a reduction in expenditure to….”

“Well they should cancel the march then because the Prime Minister dropped three federal ministers from his trip to New York to attend the United Nations eighty first general assembly meeting…”

“And one of them was The Visionary who if I am not mistaken quoted Hazrat Umar’s simplicity and…”

“Shut up, there is no comparison – there were no luxury jets at the time.”

“Anyway the Punjab farmers are marching against the government …”

“What? Don’t they know that their Chief Minister is working day and night for their betterment…”

“She must forgive them for they know not what they do.”

“Indeed.”

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