"The Khan was comparing the average inflation rate during the first ten months of the current year with the average of the first year of the Zardari led government and the first year of the Dar led years."
"Hey, you have to be consistent: if you are referring to Zardari-led years, then you must refer to the comparable office holder."
"OK, but I have a problem there. The president during the PML-N government was Mamnoon Hussain - now I ask you can you compare our innocent Mamnoon sahib with a love of ice-cream with Zardari sahib's tenure as the president..."
"Mamnoon Hussain's love for sugar is comparable to Zardari sahib's love for sugar...yes I know Zardari suffers from diabetes and can't eat sugar but he gets his sugar high from the many, many, sugar mills that he owns and..."
"Don't be facetious."
"OK, but anyway there is no comparison between the power wielded by Zardari sahib when his party formed the government in the centre and Mamnoon Hussain...the important thing in our politics is who is the party leader which means the main decision maker, so Zardari sahib as the president and Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister are comparable so where does Dar come in?"
"I have an objection to this reasoning. While Zardari sahib was the main decision maker, in the case of the PML-N you know that Nawaz Sharif constantly deferred the final decision on important matters to Dar who was known as the deputy prime minister and who, need I add, was taking all decisions and..."
"OK, but he ran them past Nawaz Sharif first."
"OK, you are right there, anyway why doesn't The Khan ask Hafeez Sheikh to sort out the rate of inflation, you know that the guy can do it with one stroke of the pen."
"A number of fiscal and monetary policies, particularly monetary policies, are required to sort out the rate of inflation and there is a delayed action, it doesn't happen overnight..."
"Hafeez Sheikh has done it before and need I add can do it again, all you need to do is instruct him to halve the rate of inflation which incidentally at present is about 9.4 percent...."
"The only possible way is through data manipulation! Who will that fool?"
"Ah, but unlike Dar's obvious data manipulation, Hafeez Sheikh changed the weightage of items used to calculate inflation which reduced the rate from around 21 percent to 12 percent..."
"Ha, ha, that's right, but one word of advice to The Khan."
"He doesn't take kindly to advice that goes counter to his thinking."
"I would simply like to quote what was said to British Prime Minister Theresa May by her own party members and..."
"The Khan doesn't listen to his own party members either if the advice runs counter to his thinking. Besides he will dismiss the advice because there is no Medina ki riyasat in the UK."
"I thought he said the West conforms to that riyasat more than we do in Pakistan."
"That's true so what advice do you want to give?"
"Resilience is strength but stubbornness is weakness."
"Ha, ha, and who is to define what characteristic The Khan is displaying my friend."
"You are right, I give up."
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