“So success in the field right!”
“Yes our cricket team did win the match, the pool match…”
“The policy decision taken by the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board not to play against India…”
“Before you say anything else, let me inform you that wearing two hats is trumped by the Prime Minister’s multiple hats and the Deputy Prime Minister’s…”
“OK but in spite of the two hats – as Chairman PCB as well as the Interior Minister – he gets less coverage on the media than the Deputy Prime Minister and this is in spite of the fact that he also owns a television channel…. Why are you laughing?”
“On a scale of one to ten in terms of media coverage the Deputy Prime Minister beats all contenders, including the Prime Minister, by a long margin and the reason is that the Minister of Information is a PML-N loyalist.”
“Right party leadership demands all instructions, explicit and implicit, must be followed…”
“True and this is an implicit instruction.”
“I heard it is explicit, by the Deputy.”
“I heard he is going to do a Zardari.”
“Excuse me?”
“Zardari sb added the Bhutto name to that of his children and between you and me Sharif, defined as honourable or virtuous is more easily inserted if you know what I mean! I myself am considering…”
“Shut up.”
“My point is whether you are honourable or not the intent is honourable.”
“Hmmm anyway there is one thing the deputy has not been able to change – get his face on billboards in the capital when a foreign dignitary visits – for example the Uzbek President’s picture was between the Prime Minister and the President’s.”
“Let it go, when I referred to success I was actually referring to Chief Minister Punjab’s decision to allow basant in Lahore and she outsmarted the Master of Reconciliation.”
“Zardari sahib?”
“Yes remember Zardari sahib initiated a festival of the Sindhi ajrak and…”
“Right and that was a success but the basant festival got international media coverage.”
“Indeed it did, who says one cannot grow into a job even if it’s inherited.”
“Agreed.”
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