“We are global trailblazers.”
“I reckon President Trump and Family have taken many of our trailblazing actions a step further.”
“Excuse me?”
“Well we began the First Daughter syndrome but didn’t take it to its logical conclusion.”
“Yes we did the First Daughter is now the Chief Minister of Punjab while the US First Daughter has decided to remain out of politics.…”
“I was referring to the first son-in-law syndrome, who is the US top diplomat without any official title, though to-date his success rate is….”
“Stop right there. He got several Muslim countries to sign the Abraham Accords during President Trump’s first term and that was an outstanding outcome.”
“He had an official title then, now he doesn’t….you think maybe….”
“If he wanted a title he would have got it. Anyway it took Israel no more than five years to thoroughly discredit those Accords what with genocide in Gaza, murders in
the West Bank, blanket bombardment in Lebanon and……”
“That’s not Kushner’s fault. Anyway my point is Kushner remains a key player with or without an official title but Retired Captain Safdar is nowhere to be seen.”
“There are cultural differences between us and the US: Samdhis are a key to one’s daughter’s happiness than the son-in-law! The Pakistani samdhi is the deputy prime minister and the foreign minister and…..”
“President Trump’s samdhi is the US Ambassador to France.”
“There you go - he can only mess up US relations with France, our on the other hand….”
“Stop it anyway ours chatted to Rubio over the Eid holidays with respect to our mediatory role as negotiators between the US and Iran and….”
“Why?”
“Why not?”
“Rubio is not involved in negotiations with Russia or Iran….”
“Do you think Witkoff is to the first son-in-law what Parvez Rashid is to the former first daughter and the current Chief Minister of Punjab? See trainers are important for…”
“When I said we are the trailblazers, I was referring to our mediatory role.”
“Hey Qatar has been engaged in…..”
“Why don’t you let me finish. I was referring to the use of the Memorandum of Understanding in agreements. Now I ask you which country in
the world has signed more MoUs with key players than us?”
“You being facetious?”
“No I mean it, we have signed over 24 billion dollar MoUs with other countries!”
“I also heard reference to a Letter of Intent (LoI). You and I both know we have signed well over a hundred LoIs with the International Monetary Fund – one before each mandatory quarterly review a prerequisite for tranche release. And for each of the twenty-four programme loans we have secured – each loan requiring on average 6 to 7 LoIs…”
“Hmmmm.”
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