Partly Facetious : PM doesn't read newspapers

"What makes a good federal minister?"

"Someone who consistently bad mouths the Opposition!"

"And what makes a very, very good federal minister?"

"Someone who not only bad mouths the opposition but is also invited by the electronic media because The Khan doesn't read papers he watches television and that too at a certain time and..."

"Oh I get it so someone who is not bad mouthing the opposition because he or she is not invited by the electronic media but is a long term Khanzadah is...is...."

"Gets the Ministry of Education or Human Rights or...."

"Right and that explains why in spite of the appalling performance of our Railways Minister his position is extremely stable."

"So the fault must lie with the media right?"

"Precisely which is why the policy of containment was proposed namely that anchors limit themselves to their one hour programme and not go channel jumping spouting the same fake news..."

"You have to give Donald J Trump full marks for that don't you. I mean he coined the term fake news."

"Indeed and I would urge The Khan to understand why Firdous Ashiq Awan got PEMRA to pass a directive turned advisory to a withdrawal...."

"There was no withdrawal like....like what Nawaz Sharif compelled an institution to do."

"Speaking of our former three times prime minister, has a deal been struck do you think?"

"I am not sure though to be honest I haven't ever heard of a convicted gentleman given bail and..."

"Don't you remember the Libyan guy Abdelbaset al-Megrahi convicted of the Lockerbie bombing; he had cancer and was freed by Britain on compassionate grounds and...."

"Yes but Britain wanted lucrative trade deals with Qaddafi at the time."

"As Raisani would say a degree is a degree fake or otherwise, so I say a deal is a deal and..."

"Hey so fake news a la Raisai is news?"

"Ha, ha, but for your information Raisani sahib is back in University enrolled in an MPhil programme in political science...."

"I would have thought that is one subject that he knows more than the professors who are teaching him."

"Let's see if he succeeds in changing the syllabus."

"Perhaps not the syllabus but he may change the content."

"Dear me."

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