“I stand corrected – it was a brilliant decision.”
“To seek an additional USD 2 billion roll-over from Saudi Arabia to make up the USD 3.45 billion shortfall due to the loan recall by UAE?”
“What are the terms of this package.”
“Don’t know, don’t care, the glass is not only half full it is brimming with….with…foam or lather.”
“Both are not substantial if you know what I mean.”
“That depends on whatever liquid is in it. Could be the bubbles are created by a forging river!”
“Hmmm anyway when I said it was a brilliant decision I was referring to those selected to visit Iran on the Field Marshal’s peace mission.”
“You know I heard it from a very well-informed source that the Iranian Supreme Leader called the Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman….”
“Be careful? You are going into dangerous territory.”
“I apologize profusely, I meant the Interior Minister.”
“Are you trying to sow discord? Let me tell you that it ain’t gonna happen.”
“Well someone did tell me.”
“Who? Your gardener?”
“To plant a garden means to believe in tomorrow. Anyway I knew about the pending talks between the US and Iran not from the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, not President Trump’s Truth Social but from the closure of traffic in Blue Area Islamabad and who do you think ordered that!”
“Not the Defence Minister!” “
“Anyway I propose that the Nobel Peace Prize committee bestows the next award to our Field Marshal.”
“No can do.”
“Why?”
“You do know that as long as President Trump is in the White House all recipients of the award will have to submit the award to him or else their country may face sanctions…..”
“Don’t be facetious. If the ceasefire holds on all fronts it would be entirely due to President Trump.”
“I am willing to concede that.”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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