Fall from grace
There's been a change of heart where once there was nothing but favour for the Quaid-e-Qiwam. at Whitehall, London, because the Quaid has fallen off his pedestal in Karachi. Rumour has it that the cases which were taking inordinately long will now move along briskly, and there will most likely be an adverse judgment in the incitement to violence case. Our mole also says that while the “foreign funding” and “money laundering” cases are convincing, there will be no unfavorable judgments on those. And that’s because the Lalas have made it clear that they won’t stand for it. Don’t forget the UK-India bilateral trade is over £ 15 billion, and Indian FDI in the UK has risen by 70% in recent years. So, when the Lalas say to the Brits, “you can’t haul up the Quaid-e-Qiwam for receiving funds in London from RAW” they have the money to make the mare go.
Groupings galore
There’s infighting in every political party, and groupings galore, but The Great Khan’s horde takes the cake. Privately, top tier politicos are frustrated with The Khan’s reckless ways, and the hijack of their once-idealistic party by fat cats. The dissenters are people who have a political past, a modicum of idealism informing their choices, and who’re now stuck with nowhere to go. One such is a scion of an illustrious house, his granddad having been Pakistan’s poet-philosopher. By some fluke, he recently got a position of importance in The Khan’s party. One of the fat cats voiced his resentment to The Khan and although the fat cat’s real estate moneybags have come in very handy, The Khan gave him short shrift. We hear the fat cat has sent feelers to The Brothers Sharifov, but they’re playing hard to get.