"What's so funny? You must be really rich..."
"What does my being amused have to do with my income?"
"Because those who are not rich are in a state of depression - everything is going up but incomes and..."
"And I sure, as hell hope that HS does not increase salaries of bureaucrats with free housing, free electricity up to a point, free household staff, free petrol up to a point, keeping the option of having their cake and eating it too and I am referring to purchase of cars as well as..."
"HS?"
"Really, that's what you picked on!"
"I thought it was all about Imran Khan and none of the two initials match his."
"Don't be facetious; you know I am referring to the newest recruit in The Khan's cabinet, Hafeez Sheikh..."
"Ah, but he isn't new, he is as old as...as 12 others that The Khan selected, so we have Farogh Naseem, Tariq Bashir Cheema, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Zubaida Jalal, Fawad Chaudhry, Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Shafqat Mehmood, Abdul Razak Dawood, Dr Ishrat Hussain, Amin Aslam and Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar."
"Khusro Bakhtiar, that reminds me - he was responsible for me concluding that Maryam Nawaz and Humza Shahbaz remain in a competitive mode in spite of the smiles and..."
"How did you get to that conclusion?"
"Remember the speeches of the two during the 28 May PML-N get together? Yes, anyway Humza Shahbaz mentioned charges against Khusro Bakhtiar which are income having increased significantly since he joined politics while Maryam Nawaz, in deference to her samdhi, never uttered a word."
"I always said that the weakness of Father and Daughter are their samdhis.... anyway what I found amusing was that if one only relies on the government controlled media accompanying the Foreign Minister one would not be remiss in concluding that the OIC summit was dealing with all issues facing Pakistan, Kashmir and all, while it was an emergency summit called by Saudi Arabia to discuss accusations of hegemonic designs in the region by Iran..."
"That's true, but did you notice that The Khan, on a two day visit to the Kingdom took his Third Wife along..."
"So?"
"First time I saw her wearing a black...black...it's not quite a burqa is it? Anyway it wasn't white it was black."
"Maybe it's a religious thing..."
"You are probably right, nothing to do with the fact that a year and a half or so after marriage white may well turn to black."
"Don't be facetious."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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