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Print Print 2014-12-30

Partly Facetious: Timber market fire: exchange of accusations

"Hey did you hear a Qatari delegation was in the country."
Published December 30, 2014

"Hey did you hear a Qatari delegation was in the country."
"Why is that news? I mean we are in the process of purchasing LNG from Qatar and the price of gas has yet to be agreed though PML-N critics smell a rat while the PML-N supporters smell roses if you know what I mean."
"That's true of our politics: you heard the PPP-MQM exchange of accusations after the fire in the timber market in Karachi."
"Right so in case anything goes wrong blame the other party while in the event that anything goes right take the credit and reconciliation be damned."
"That's Pakistani politics though it's rather sad that the PPP is now mainly engaged in hurling accusations at the MQM, which is a regional party, and not against any national party..."
"Don't be facetious, any Sindh as well as federal government has to deal with the MQM, I mean MQM cannot be compared with other regional parties including JUI(F) and the ANP and the..."
"Right but with respect to LNG procurement price why doesn't the PML-N government follow the advice of the advisors it hired at great public expense and who have suggested that a short term import price must be agreed given that international price of fuel - all types of fuel - is likely to plummet though the Saudi government reckons that it would rise to 80 dollars per barrel from the existing around 60 dollars per barrel."
"What in the world are you talking about?"
"The Qatari delegation on a visit to Pakistan..."
"Is not, I repeat not, here to finalise the LNG deal, the delegation comprised of private sector individuals who asked Pakistani business men to invest in Qatar...."
"What? I thought that was our Prime Minister and Finance Minister's mantra....foreign trips to seek foreign investment."
"Well the Qatari private sector has taken the step..."
"We must not issue visas for private sector Qataris - this may lead the Pakistani public to question our leaders' foreign trips and so..."
"Don't be facetious."
"No I am serious - this must stop."
"I give up."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2014

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