No can do
We hear Friar TuQ got one last message from the powers-that-be before he abandoned the “revolution”, packed up and left his Islamabad dharna. Stay on, they urged him. Sorry, no can do, he is said to have replied. Apparently, he claimed that his organization was having to serve up “100,000 naans per day” and that was besides the daal or sabzi to go with it. The Friar said he was out of pocket and had to resume his fund raising tours in Europe and North America. They say he also made his displeasure with the “plotters and planners” known to them. “They led me up the garden path and left me without a paddle”, he complained to an intermediary in equivalent Urdu.
Internecine strife
The opposition is not alone in being riven with dissent. We hear The Man of Steel’s camp is also bursting with internecine strife. There’s the matter of the two leading ministers who are not on talking terms with each other, with one minister fuming about Talented Bro, and the other in a perpetual sulk with The Man of Steel. Then there’s the issue of central Punjabi businessmen complaining to a well-regarded Punjab MPA about DCOs pressurizing them to deliver “monthly stipends for the party fund”, a euphemism for contributions to a scion of La Familia. Upon investigation, the matter was deemed serious enough to be brought to The Man of Steel’s notice. No progress on that yet, apparently.
Unfolding disaster
Now that General Bobby’s going to the US, we wonder if he’ll get a reality check a la Canny at the hands of HC, then Secretary of State, back in the day. Presiding over a meeting discussing Pakistan as an unfolding disaster, our mole reported that HC asked Canny, “How do you envisage Pakistan in 2020? South Korea or the Democratic Republic of Congo?” Predictably, she got no answer.