“So who is telling the truth in Tirah valley?”
“The government.”
“And you say that because?”
“Because to stay healthy one has to be wise and wise means looking at the ground realities.”
“Hmmmm so you belong to the generation of Shehbaz Sharifs.”
“That’s where the cookie crumbles my friend.”
“Well the cookie is crumbling and no lesson has been learned as to how to bake it so it doesn’t crumble.”
“And that implies?”
“The airwaves are full of Western technology including Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can be used to, how can I say it, locate you at any time of day or night and then there is Chinese counter technology which would deactivate the Western technology…”
“I heard of that, reports suggest that Iran could defuse the violence so quickly because it was engineered by hand-picked and trained 4000 to 5000 who entered Iran illegally with Musk’s Starlink receivers that were critical to connect them to their handlers perhaps sitting in Tel Aviv but which were deactivated and located by the use of Sino-Russian technology.”
“So?”
“So we have our stakeholders spending billions of the tax payers’ money on social media engineering and requesting Elon Musk, of the Starlink fame, to stop some X accounts while we are probably one of the countries closest to China and yet we have not tried to replace the Musk system with the Chinese one?”
“And the irony is that we have an AI policy, but…”
“That’s right but, end of sentence.”
“I don’t get it.”
“But we are a nation that doesn’t learn lessons.”
“Hmm so they must not use the Nawalas for defence, Nawalas as in Nawaz Sharif loyalists?”
“Yep, right now the Minister of State for Interior, the Defence Minister and the Information Minister constitute the defence force if you will. They should use the Interior Minister, more relevant and…”
“No can do - he has his Chairman of the PCB hat on.”
“You know I asked the Foreign Ministry for their take on Pakistan not playing in the T-20 matches to show solidarity with Bangladesh…”
“And they said to check with the PCB right?”
“Right.”
“Hey were you part of generation Shehbaz Sharif you would never have made that mistake.”
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