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Opinion Print 2019-12-26

Partly Facetious: There's a need for drawing a lesson from the Queen

"Head of institutions, including the government, should draw a lesson from the Queen."
Published December 26, 2019 Updated December 27, 2019

"Head of institutions, including the government, should draw a lesson from the Queen."

"Don't be facetious."

"I am serious."

"Does that include The Khan?"

"Yes, he is head of government."

"Leave Queen Bushra Bibi alone, she has totally withdrawn from all duties that are the responsibility of a First Lady and so..."

"Oh for Pete's sake, when I said the Queen I meant the Queen of England."

"Well, in that case too, you are being facetious - The Khan can never be Queen."

"Now who is being facetious?!"

"OK, but we do not have kingship in our country we have democracy and..."

"Well, remember what the currently absent Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif stated on the floor of the house, that The Khan should stop threatening members of the opposition as we don't have a dictatorship in the country?"

"Are you implying our kingship is akin to dictatorship? Because if you are then let me tell you that the Queen of England has no power and it is parliament..."

"But she has pomp and she has style and she has the trappings of power."

"Stop it right now, you are being silly now."

"OK, but when I suggested that the head of institutions should draw some lessons from the Queen I was referring to her decision which must have been very, very hard for her namely to get her second son Prince Andrew to withdraw from all royal duties because...wait let me finish... Because the institution of royalty was more important than her own child and..."

"Her second son made some rather silly remarks on television associated with his friend, a convicted American pedophile who is since dead that made the British people very angry and..."

"Whatever her reason and need I add the head of ISPR recently stated that the institution is more important than an individual and..."

"Indeed and one would hope for some practical application of this principle - all government ministers, those with suspended investigation against them for alleged crimes during their previous avatars and here the reference is to when the twenty five odd men and women were against The Khan's party pre July 2018 elections, then there is the investigating guru Javed Iqbal who should revisit his decisions and then..."

"Ha, ha, in your dreams."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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