PARTLY FACETIOUS: Urdu-medium Maryam and English-medium Bilawal?

"Did you hear Maryam Nawaz?"

"Not fair - she gets interviewed by the Urdu service with limited viewership while Bilawal Bhutto Zardari gets interviewed by the English service."

"All I can say is lucky for the PML-N because what she said was neither consistent with her own previous statements that incidentally no one but daddy is listening to, nor logical, nor indeed on the cards because she admitted that no one from the establishment had contacted her...."

"Do you reckon the Urdu service approached her because her English is not good - I mean both The Khan and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari have graduated from premier English universities where it is not easy to get admission...."

"Hmmm though if you recall Maryam Nawaz ridiculed The Khan for selecting an Urdu sounding name for his offshore company while she and her family came up with an Anglo Saxon name for their offshore companies ..."

"Well anyway the lady came, she talked and she got quite a few supporters disenchanted with her statements during the interview...."

"I agree but anyway she did look good and..."

"Indeed no two ways about it. I reckon she is the prettiest woman politician today and makes extremely good copy though I glanced at all the newspapers the day after the interview and none of them carried her picture on the front page. "

"But she got a lot of coverage on television, in fifty or more channels, and you know our national leadership watches television rather than read newspapers."

"That's certainly true so after the interview Maryam Nawaz's band of very small mainly unelected merry men and women began defending her and all I can say is that they must advise her to prepare for interviews, and not just rely on inherent abilities..."

''I would add a word....inherent over rated abilities."

"As long as she has daddy she will continue to prevail - but afterwards she will have to show her strength within the party - don't forget it took Benazir Bhutto years before she took over the party..."

"Right Bilawal too took more than a few years to emerge as the leader though it didn't take Zardari sahib that long, a matter of weeks if not days...."

"That is why we are all agreed that he has a Phd in Politics."

"Could it be because the party stalwarts did what the Republican party is doing today?"

"No comment."

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