"So what did you think of Imran Khan's address to the nation carried by the privately owned channels, not the channel that is run from our tax money?"
"Hey, that means the coverage of the speech was limited to major cities and towns and did not get aired in the rural areas....besides surely the Khan knows that PTV, and it does not stand for Pakistan Television, but Pro-Tetrarch Visionaries...."
"What's a Tetrarch?"
"Some one who rules a quarter of a country!"
"A quarter? Mian sahib is the ruler of all he surveys, for Pete's sake he is the elected, not selected, prime minister of this country."
"Granted, but have any of our civilian rulers controlled more than a quarter of the country if you know what I mean."
"I guess I do, but let me assure you that the civilian and military leadership are on the same page today and..."
"Yeah, yeah and you expect me to believe that given the recent launch of an operation in Punjab and the announcement by the army public relations wing that the army has launched such an operation when The Rana was saying that the civilian and military were together carrying out law enforcement operations...."
"One can't win an argument from you! Anyway I asked you what you thought of the Khan's speech?"
"It wasn't choreographed as well as PTV would have."
"Indeed, the Khan stumbled a bit, and he should have stuck to a written speech - true he didn't have a teleprompter as is available to PTV but..."
"Alright, but what did you think of the content?"
"The Dar affidavit consisted of 47 pages, the Khan said, and included the name of a Deputy of the State Bank of Pakistan who denied he laundered money for the Sharif family and who stated that Dar sahib was tortured before he agreed to sign the affidavit and that the court had acknowledged that the affidavit was signed by him under duress and so had no legal validity."
"That's one up for Rehman Malik I say, he too was tortured but never signed an affidavit."
"Hello, hello... he is in the country, he just said hello on the phone..."
"Who?"
"Dar sahib, he has been so silent since the Panama leaks that I thought he was out of the country."
"Don't be facetious."
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