Partly Facetious : A colonial mindset?

Updated 08 Jan, 2020

"The Khan says that English reflects a colonial mindset."

"That's the history but by now it also reflects an elitist mind set. I mean even the rich in rural areas who speak English with a, shall we say pronounced Punjabi accent, have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to send their kids abroad who now speak English fluently and..."

"Who did that?"

"Hina Rabbani Khar speaks English fluently then there is also Hammad Azhar and..."

"OK but The Khan also speaks English fluently."

"Sometimes he makes mistakes.

"The mistakes are of history or geography or..."

"There are some grammatical errors too but I guess in the heat of the moment that is OK, no what I meant when I said The Khan speaks English fluently is to point out a conflict of not interest but a conflict of actions..."

"The Khan says that U turns allow him to achieve..."

"What I am referring to is not a U turn - see The Khan wears two styles of clothing only - one is the track suit and sneakers which reflect his obsession with physical fitness and need I add we all must be very proud of our chief executive's fitness regimen for none of his predecessors, not even military dictators, had the fitness that he has."

"The Khan works very hard to remain fit as you know. I mean you don't get fit by not exercising, eating carefully and..."

"Right and the second style of clothing that he wears in the country and outside the country, in the Middle East and in the West, is what I term as the Pakpattan style..."

"Hey back off, Bushra Bibi is no longer a public figure and deserves privacy and..."

"But The Khan's style of clothing changed during each of his marriages - it was the Brown sahib clothes during Jemima Khan days; shalwar kameez but the colour scheme was kind of bold in terms of different colour mixes during his second marriage; and now it's a perfect colour match - dark blue on dark blue...."

"We are all influenced by our spouse so what's the big deal?"

"No big deal, just that he wears only the Pakpattan style during his foreign tours but speaks in English so my question: is that more praiseworthy than say his predecessors wearing Western clothes and speaking in English?"

"Ah you want him to drop the clothes or the language?"

"One or the other, for consistency."

"Don't be facetious."

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