PARTLY FACETIOUS: Chaudhary Nisar never allowed traffic to be stalled due to VIP movement
“To each his or her own.”
“Duh! I don’t think you will get any challenge to that idiom but what prompted you to cite it?”
“Leaders leave their unique mark.”
“Indeed as do the rest of us plebeians, though many leaders are forgotten by posterity.”
“President Trump will be remembered for the war against Iran, I don’t think it’s over and done with yet, but his actions were not characteristic of him.”
“How come?”
“Last year he allowed Israel to bomb Iran and then get roundly bombed itself and at the tail end he negotiated with Iran: let the B52 bombers enter to bomb the three nuclear sites in Iran and in return bomb the Qatari base, the largest US base in the region at the time …”
“I see what you mean and this year he failed to display such astuteness.”
“Correct and I reckon last year’s Trump is not back.”
“And the proof of that is?”
“Telling Vance that his mediation days are over with Iran ….”
“AHmmmm anyway when I said to each his or her own, I was actually talking domestically.”
“I was saddened to see that Tarar sahib of the Information Ministry has been replaced by Tariq Fazal Chaudhary tasked to defend the ….the ….the …”
“Ah your needle got stuck is it!”
“In today’s technologically advanced world that expression is redundant. Anyway I see Tarar sahib on television during a press conference in the company of other ministers never on his own or delivering a not keynote address …”
“Not?”
“Not delivering a keynote speech, but he does get the footage because he is the information minister after all. No I actually wanted to talk about different interior ministers we have had – powerful men all.”
“Chaudhary Nisar never allowed traffic to be stalled due to VIP movement, Rana Sanaullah built iron barred gates, see through gates …”
“It may have reminded him of his sojourn in jail, perhaps.”
“And he only shut them when a protest movement was threatening to get out of hand.”
“OK.”
“And we have the incumbent who keeps the doors shut, I think it’s been at least over half a year.”
“That’s due to security threats.”
“One question: if the raison d’étre of declaring emergency is dealt with then will these gates be opened finally?”
“Nah that’s not the way to look at it - he is a fair man – 2 of the four gates are open and two shut – that makes it 50 percent.”
“You didn’t answer my question.”
“Maybe or if he becomes the country’s prime minister ….”
“Rana sahib did say something to that effect publicly.”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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