“Ooopsy daisy.”
“What happened?”
“Did you hear of talks on consolidation of the four provincial police service into one national police force?”
“All you former interior ministers eat your heart out!”
“Indeed but you reckon Sindh or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will agree?”
“The incumbent is close to Zardari sahib so….”
“But that would be a short term or at best medium term….”
“Hey our politicians think short term at best, medium term when engaged with third party, and never long term because then one dies.”
“Assuming that one’s demise is in the long term and not….”
“Hmmmm…”
“OK I ask you: five to ten years ago would you have been able to forecast the economic decline of Germany and its ignominious defeat for the first ever in not being able to secure the UN Security Council non-permanent member seat?”
“Impressive, it required dedicated appallingly poor foreign policy much more than economic I would say.”
“Right and the fault lies with their leadership! The blowing up of Nordstream pipeline that provided very cheap Russian gas for their industry, spewing hatred against the Russians nearly every day and proactively supporting a war industry over their civilian industry and…”
“I bet if Merz met with Putin….”
“Merz will meet with Netanyahu not Putin.”
“Therein lies a tale.”
“A tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, isn’t that a Shakespearean quote.”
“Hamm he was one savvy guy. Anyway so one national police force – would Maryam Nawaz agree?”
“She was given protocol recently when she went to see the cricket match….”
“One protocol doesn’t an agreement make.”
“What?”
“Remember when daddy came back from his long stay in the UK he was given a protocol the likes of which no other convicted individual has ever received and look where he is now!”
“Raiwind is not such a bad place I hear….”
“Don’t be facetious.”
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