False sense of security
The late lamented Big Ben’s party is a royal mess, that we know. But how big a mess comes as a surprise to many political pundits. For instance, it was recently revealed that for all his hand-wringing about being left out of the Lone Rangers’ clean-up measures in Sinned, the Octogenarian CM had a pretty good idea about Dr A’s arrest before it happened. They say he urged Dr A, Hubby’s close friend, to stay away and not return to Karachi. Dr A, lulled into a false sense of security by his insider informants returned and lived to rue the day. Upon his return, the Octogenarian urged him to get a return ticket and take off but Dr A went confidently to his office from where he was arrested.
Hubby also insists that he’s staying away because he had credible news that “they” were going to attack his home with rockets.
She won’t go quietly
So there we have it. Our self-styled Bhabi, three months short of celebrating her first wedding anniversary, is apparently on her way out. But she won’t go quietly. The buzz is that she’s asking The Great Khan for one million greenbacks to call it quits. But the fact of the matter, according to a reliable source, is that she’ll settle for 350,000 pound sterling. The Khan has answered that demand with his own counter offer — he says he has only 200,000 greenbacks to give and not a penny more. So negotiations are continuing.
People are asking why it’s come to a head so quickly. Apparently, there was trouble in paradise from Day One. Marry in haste, repent at leisure, as they say. The Khan discovered, rather belatedly, that his spouse had accepted prohibitively expensive gifts from the wife of his property baron party man and now prime candidate in a Lahore by-election. There were other matters too, over which the couple began to fall out. It all came to a head when The Khan’s sons came to visit him. There was talk of a selfie he took with his elder son, later posted on social media by his former spouse, asking innocently who was the taller of the two. Apparently, Bhabi took umbrage at that as well. On this, The Khan exploded, as well he might, given the fact that his Bani Gala residence was overrun by his missus’ clan. And so on and so forth. They say the nuptials are now irretrievably damaged and it’s a matter of time before the parting is announced.