"So is there a deal or isn't there a deal?"
"In the making maybe but not yet signed. And like all deals it removes the perceived thorns from the equation."
"Thorns are not in an equation, thorns are with flowers, beautiful flowers..."
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. You may think Maryam Nawaz is beautiful but others may think it is Shahbaz Sharif."
"Hey, I am all for declaring The Khan's Third Wife beautiful but I don't know what she looks like..."
"Don't be facetious."
"Anyway in this instance equation is a more suitable term because variables are changing all the time..."
"OK, so who are the thorns in the equation? Nawaz Sharif and Zardari sahib?"
"You are so dim witted, since when are thorns removed concurrently - its one at a time my friend."
"Is it Nawaz Sharif first? The three time prime minister..."
"Oh shush, anyway The Khan is not a signatory to the deal and is not agreeing..."
"No one is a signatory to the deal, in this country deals are made not on paper but on the word given by the two parties to the deal..."
"And as Zardari sahib says a written deal is not hadith therefore he may never be offered an unwritten deal you reckon?"
"Perhaps though Musharraf passed an ordinance, the National Reconciliation Ordinance, which allowed the PPP immunity from prosecution when it was in power, which incidentally benefited the MQM as well though the years when Nawaz Sharif was in power were not exempt from prosecution..."
"And that defines corruption my friend - it is only public money misuse that constitutes corruption and not private money. If you evade taxes or avoid taxes or launder your ill gotten wealth then charges can be brought against you but not corruption charges."
"I get it, so The Khan may be eligible for corruption only after he leaves office."
"The Khan remains whiter than white I would have you know..."
"I thought you used to refer to him as the Brown Sahib."
"That is a dated epithet, these days it is Imran Niazi and Selected Prime Minister."
"I find Brown Sahib more derogatory than the current epithets in use..."
"That's because you are not the Prime Minister of the country."
"I still don't see..."
"Which Prime Minister or the power behind any throne, and I am also including Zardari sahib in the list, does not feel anger, great anger, at all the abuse hurled at him by members of the opposition."
"But I thought in Naya Pakistan..."
"But the Prime Minister is not that naya - he has lived in this country for more than 60 years and..."
"I get it."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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