PARTLY FACETIOUS: Khan a good cricketer

“Our CM is running true to character.”

“Which Chief Minister are you talking about? The Buzz is on a learning curve…”

“On how to do his job?”

“No on how to find ways to deflect periodic attacks on his performance, from within and outside the party…..”

“I don’t think his boss cares about criticism from outside the party, that’s all lies, lies and more lies told by those with an agenda to destabilize the country; I am not sure anyone dares to challenge The Buzz from within the party anymore. Anyway I wasn’t referring to The Buzz when I said he is running true to character.”

“Murad Ali Shah, Mehmud Khan or Jam Kamal Khan….”

“Neither my friend I was actually not referring to a chief minister at all, I was referring to Committee Master, none other than The Khan.”

“I don’t get it.”

“The Committee Master has set up yet another committee to monitor these dratted opposition leaders’ agitation and…”

“That’s a first.”

“Indeed and his deputy Asad Umer is going to be part of that committee too….”

“And to think the guy was dismissed electronically as Minister for Finance – the most important ministry…”

“No more my friend – Umer is heading the cabinet committee on energy, the committee on China Pakistan Economic Corridor, the committee which is more functional than even the ministry of finance, then there is the….”

“Does your CM know the proverb that a camel is a horse designed by a committee? Or a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours, to kill time a committee meeting is the perfect weapon; and my personal favourite by US author Dave Barry if you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential that word would be meetings….”

“Its that dratted Nawaz Sharif, he never held any meetings, which is why our CM has meetings from morning till night and in the meetings decides to set up yet another committee…”

“Isnt that behaviour pattern associated with teenagers rather than...”

“Anyway the CM would also be remembered as the man who began the practice of appointing special representatives, Maulana Tahir Ashrafi has been appointed as the Prime Minister’s special representative on religious harmony…”

“This is in addition to the forty special assistants and special advisors and…”

“The Khan is a cricketer and as a good cricketer he needs at least two teams with spares for all the players….”

“Don’t be facetious. Does this new position have any perks?”

”Not sure.”

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