“How would you define hybrid.”
“You do like to live dangerously don’t you!”
“Good heavens you do have a one track mind – “Oh right, but you do know that the bulk of our grid electricity is produced by fuel which we import, and it passes through the Strait of Hormuz.”
“Hmmm anyway with reference to electric vehicles the number of gas stations that provide the infrastructure to charge a car through electricity are no more than a handful.”
“Our stakeholders get enamoured of a trendy global policy which requires infrastructure and that remains a challenge.”
“In some cases a challenge that spans decades.”
“Ha, ha, that’s true and the clock is still ticking on many such schemes, coal generated electricity away from the source, water storage capacity, fuel storage capacity, talk of…”
“Enough, anyway when I asked you to define hybrid I was thinking of people and not, I repeat not, institutions.”
“OK explain.”
“I saw the Chief Minister Punjab, former First Daughter, being welcomed as is her due by the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.”
“You are being facetious.”
“No not at all, this is his terms of reference, he is in a position that is well below the one she enjoys at present…”
“You reckon if our team had won an international match during the international T-20 tournament the welcome may have been delegated to his second in command?”
“I will have you know that the public’s expectations have been successfully dealt with, and they are happy to see our players play with each other – the PSL…”
“Is that a take-off from the Indian…”
“The first letter is the key so our P out matches their I.”
“Anyway the Chairman was appropriately servile to the Chief Minister as he should have been but what about if he was wearing the other hat? That of the Interior Minister? I mean he voluntarily gave up the chief minister-ship and…”
“I reckon he is primed to be the next top Pakistani diplomat!”
“The Deputy…”
“Remember: some are more equal than others.”
“Indeed.”
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