“I would like to say something about the Prime Minister’s austerity package.”
“Let it go, let it go, let it go.”
“And you reckon I failed to understand you the first two times necessitating it’s utterance a third time!”
“Well the guy is trying, and you know as well as I, that we are in troubled waters, some of the trouble was inherited…why are you laughing?”
“Some of it was inherited from way before the dawn of the Sharifs – and here I refer to cars and fuel entitlement of our senior bureaucrats – and some are inherited after the dawn of the Sharifs – and here I refer to artificially controlling the rupee dollar parity – and then there were some policies that can be dated back to the Zardari era – the rental power projects that…”
“Why not mention an across the board support that accounts for the continuing rise of the real estate mafia?”
“Hmmm but you know the point is that our bureaucrats and judiciary and those who work for autonomous entities have offices in Blue Area and need I add that all gates that give access to the area have been shut for more than three to four months with only one entrance open and the long queues behind that gate is how shall I put – not petrol friendly at all.”
“So what would you have: security or saving petrol?”
“Considering that the free fuel allocation is paid for at the taxpayers’ expense…”
“But our leaders are safe.”
“Let’s hope that we never take on the mighty West.”
“Where did that come in?”
“Well the decapitation strategy that has been refined over the years by Israel would imply that our Blue Area is bombed – the minister’s enclave and the long queue outside the one open gate and the…”
“Don’t be facetious silly.”
“But the decision makers need to think about it.”
“Well the decision maker is currently wearing the other hat — engaged in telling off the cricket team that…”
“Let it go, let it go, let it go.”
“Gotcha this time.”
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