We kid you not!
Our mole reports that in the ancien regime’s penultimate cabinet meeting, our former Prime Minister had suggested that the new Islamabad airport be named “Benazir Bhutto International Airport”. Sadly, his cabinet did not agree with him. They proposed other names. Amongst these were Edhi International Airport, Liaquat Ali Khan International Airport and Quaid-e-Azam International Airport (as opposed to Jinnah Airport, Karachi).
And then suddenly, someone proposed - wait for it - Osama bin Laden International Airport, we kid you not! And horror of horrors, a consensus began to emerge on that ridiculous suggestion. That’s when our former PM, aka SKA, abruptly concluded the meeting by declaring, “let the next government give a name to the new Islamabad airport”. Phew!
Barefoot Contessa
Back in the day, American President Richard Nixon had a multi-talented aide, at once a nuclear policy analyst and a great cook, Ina Garten. After she retired, Ms Garten went on to become a celebrity chef and from 2002, hosted a show on Food Network entitled “Barefoot Contessa”.
It appears that we have our own version of the same in the exalted person of Her Holiness who not only went barefoot herself when she arrived in the Holy Land a few days ago, but also persuaded The Great Khan to do the same. He was barefoot when he landed, and continued barefoot to his hotel.