"So exports were down in December?"

"Yes indeed and the fault lies with external forces, those dratted external forces..."

"The usual suspects?"

"I don't get you?"

"India?"

"Well our exports are like the Peshawari chappal that our Prime Minister has specially made and..."

"That sounds facetious to me."

"They are open toed so any external force directly impacts on what the foot feels."

"What an inane thing to say, surely socks can be worn in the winters and in the summers there are air conditioners..."

"Both are decadent Western imports and..."

"We make our own socks and we also make our own air conditioners now though I am not sure government offices are mandated to use only Pakistani air conditioners...."

"Air conditioners are polluters and I hope that The Khan will ban their use in all ministries and government offices...."

"Are you out of your mind? If the babus didn't work with the threat of an investigation by the National Accountability Bureau and succeeded in convincing The Khan to pass an ordinance you think they will work in the heat of our summers what with climate change and....."

"Hey NAB won't be able to harass them on procedure but everything else goes."

"And is there anything that they do that is not based on procedure?!"

"Hmmm anyway I vaguely recall the Punjab bureaucrats taking a position during Shahbaz Sharif's tenure, which The Khan slammed and..."

"I keep telling you our rulers challenge all English proverbs, the colonial language which indicates a shallow mind set and..."

"What proverb?"

"What's good for the goose is not good for the gander here."

"I don't get."

"Well let me put it this way the goose and the gander do the same things - cut ribbons every day, praise their team members - read all federal ministers and advisors, special assistants and special advisors and...

"Get to the point."

"Anyway the gander of yesteryear becomes the goose of this year and..."

"No one can keep winning elections, if nothing else there is voter fatigue with seeing the same face cutting ribbons day in and day out and.....

"Ah but no gander has ever understood that."

"That's true."