“A former officer of the SIS has been declared sanctioned…”
“You are so badly informed. First General Faiz Hameed is not a former SIS officer but a former ISI officer and second he has not been sanctioned but convicted and to the best of our knowledge serving his sentence…”
“Don’t jump the gun…”
“Hey, when you talk of the army…”
“Shut up, when I say don’t jump the gun, you very well know that I mean wait till I complete my sentence before ascribing a thought to me that wasn’t in my mind at all.”
“Hmmmm that reminds me of the proverb – I think you are the Monday of my life.”
“As long as I am not a Friday…”
“Hey Man Friday was a loyal male servant named after a character in the well-known book Robinson Crusoe whom the character Crusoe rescued and named for the day of the rescue.”
“Can I go back to what I began by saying…”
“My lips are sealed – silence is golden, as they say, but duct tape is silver.”
“You are in a facetious mood anyway, for your information I was referring to SIS and not ISI – SIS as in the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service.”
“Interesting – the Swiss named their intelligence services as strategic, we have named it as inter-services, the US as Central, the UK as in Military Intelligence…”
“So?”
“So the common denominator is intelligence, the second letter rather than the first…”
“OK I concede, but there is a Jacques Baud, a former SIS officer who has been sanctioned…”
“By his government?”
“Nope.”
“BY a foreign government?”
“Not quite.”
“By the US?”
“Nope.”
“I give up. Who?”
“The bureaucrats in the European Union.”
“I though Switzerland was not in the EU…”
“But the country participates in the single market and all…”
“So what does sanction mean?”
“Travel ban, no access to bank accounts, no…”
“Perhaps we can learn a lesson here.”
“Really, that’s your take from this!”
“Hey, I am a mere ant where dinosaurs tread.”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
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