PARTLY FACETIOUS: Trump following our example in some instances
“So who is following whom?”
“Well I am not sure, you could call it following but our high level team played a mediatory role….”
“How high?”
“The highest possible – civilian and military and I here I humbly inform the Qatari foreign minister that he is not chief marshal but Field Marshal.”
“That’s petty, anyway when I asked how high I was being facetious – I was thinking of that completely inane idiom namely when I say jump you say how high.”
“Agreed, completely inane, not applicable, but I just want to request the Qatari Foreign Minister to get it right next time.”
“Right so you want to take another guess as to who I was referring to when I asked who is following whom?”
“Well Shehbaz Sharif….”
“Nope I was referring to the US President Trump following our example in some instances — the First Daughter syndrome….the….why are you laughing?”
“Keir Starmer is following Mian Nawaz Sharif now – mujhe kyon nikala, (why did you remove me).”
“There is a difference in whom the two men addressed these words to!”
“Yes indeed, but I ask you how many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?”
“I doubt if any of the Sharifs or the Bhutto Zardaris have ever changed a light bulb.”
“Captain retired Safdar…..”
“Please let him be anyway the answer to the light bulb question is no, they are too busy pointing fingers at each other in the dark.”
“Learn to respect politicians - one clause of the Charter of Democracy was to never point fingers at each other, never to malign….”
“We know that clause, like most of the others, was a challenge to implement. But the Interior Minister is in Switzerland right and I was wondering….”
“You are so very, very, shallow. Have you not heard of cricket diplomacy?”
“Yes but none of the participants play cricket!”
“Sincere efforts are ongoing to change that my friend.”
“I stand corrected.”
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