PARTLY FACETIOUS: Two wrongs don't make a right

"One right doesn't take care of all the subsequent wrongs."

"Hey the correct expression is two wrongs don't make a right."

"What do the scions of the English language know about life in the Subcontinent?"

"Or mathematics for that matter - because two negatives make a positive."

"Let me clarify what I meant- Captain Safdar was picked up by the Karachi police after someone registered an FIR against him - which as you and I know is not easy to register without the government's approval - remember the disassociation by the Punjab and the federal government after an FIR on a charge of sedition against all members of the PML-N executive committee was filed recently?! Anyway Captain Safdar was charged with sloganeering at the Mazar-i-Quaid and really that was not quite appropriate...."

"Maryam Nawaz says the door of the hotel room was broken into!"

"Which I can't understand because hotel managements have a master key that can open all doors...."

"Maybe the Karachi police wanted to intimidate the occupants?"

"I don't think so....this is the land of the still rather wild, wild west...."

"You reckon it was deliberate? I think there is a need to further investigate the matter."

"Out of all that is happening in this country today you want to investigate whether Maryam's version is correct or not!"

"I guess I really don't care but when I said one right doesn't make a wrong I was referring to Captain Safdar's marriage to Maryam Nawaz, which was a right for him, and then began a period of wrongs that continues to this day, no one in his father-in-law's party is ever going to accept him as the party chair ever, ever, ever..."

"See, there I disagree with you, Zardari sahib was not liked by those around Benazir Bhutto, and yet he inherited all from her - in the courts, in the political arena, in the...."

"OK but you cant compare the wily Zardari with the rather guileless Captain retired Safdar. I mean I keep hearing that the army doesn't abandon it's own but I have never ever witnessed ownership of Captain Safdar by any member of the armed forces..."

"Don't be facetious...the guy married right and that's all there is to it."

"Agreed."

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