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“Haven’t seen the HA for a while.”

“HA as in, wait let me guess — Heave-to Albania?”

“Excuse me?”

“Albania is a country in Europe with 51 percent Muslims, but it isn’t a country where Muslims go on a religious pilgrimage – like Saudi Arabia and Iraq and Iran and….”

“Well the European Union (EU) undertook a survey recently in which the Muslim majority has shrunk to 45.7 percent, which is sizeable but….”

“But less than half!”

“Precisely however the survey notes that 10 percent Albanians did not respond….”

“Interesting, did our Prime Minister or his deputy ask the top EU diplomat when she visited Islamabad recently about this new and improved survey classification? I mean I had heard of the undecided being in a separate category but not…”

“Our Prime Minister would say beggars can’t be choosers and the deputy would say let me check with my samdhi ji.”

“Maybe later — the samdhi ji is still angry at being kicked out of the Prime Minister’s House and…”

“It’s been nine years already!”

“Give it a cool 10, that’s a round number, anyway is there any Jewish population in Albania?”

“Good heavens where did that come from?”

“Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have bought an island off Albania and plan to constrict an exclusive….”

“Hey silly it doesn’t matter because the island is off the coast of Albania so no Muslims allowed. But thank you for letting me know, I will pass it on to Pakistani mediators, I mean Jared Kushner must be very busy right now so negotiations with Iran….”

“Witkoff is not otherwise engaged, I hear.”

“You don’t think Witkoff will visit the place! I am sure he would be offered a flat or plot….”

“Meanwhile the supply disruptions in the rest of the world….”

“Hey get your facts straight.”

“Can I make a suggestion?”

“What?”

“If the mediators offer the islands off the coast of Karachi….”

“Don’t be facetious.”

Copyright Business Recorder, 2026

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