“Better late than never.”
“That depends.”
“Hey back off, it’s an old proverb, English I reckon….”
“That reminds me has Keir Starmer resigned yet? Why are you laughing?”
“You know at one time the whiff of a scandal and Western leaders would resign. Now they have…well become more like ours.”
“I remember the refrain mujhe kyon nikala (Why did you extradite me)?”
“I reckon he now believes that was a lot better position to be in than sitting on the outside looking….looking….”
“Outside….looking outside cause he is certainly not allowed to look inside.”
“I think sometimes he is. But did you note that when his party is not in power – in the centre or Punjab – he is in self-imposed exile and when his family members have positions then he stays in Raiwind.”
“Interesting anyway I agree with you, many Western leaders with the lowest popularity ratings ever are all clinging to power – this is not only in the UK, but France and Germany….”
“And all three are taking momentous decisions on behalf of their people who they no longer represent, and I am referring to Starmer’s return to the European Union by the backdoor, Merz’s militarisation that is freaking out his European partners, Macron’s pro-Ukraine….”
“Maybe because they have the same Pied Piper; don’t they!”
“Pied Piper?”
“You know the legendary chap who rid a town of a rat infestation and when the townspeople refused to pay him he played his pipe and all the town’s children followed him and vanished.”
“Yes but who is these three leaders pied piper?”
“Ursula von der Leyen.”
“Hmmm yeah, the lesson learned, you gotta be careful who you select as your pied piper.”
“For sure anyway the two protagonists, Iran and the US, are not in Islamabad, and while I agree better late than never because their conflict has crippled world economy yet I would humbly request the stakeholders to implement a lockdown when a meeting time has been agreed between the two.”
“Agreed the entire Blue Area is shut where all government offices are located, as well as the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court and the Islamic court and….”
“There are some critical institutional headquarters that are not in the Blue Area, CDA office, the EOBI office, the…”
“I give up.”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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