Toshakhana
So, the Prez has earned kudos by declaring his and his family’s official gifts from Al-King and Al-Brince, turned them over to the Toshakhana and as far as we know, hasn’t yet bought them back at a fraction of their price. We hear the gifts were valued at a figure upwards of Rs 45 million. Good for the Prez. We now await The Great Khan’s disclosure of the gifts lavished upon him and all his sundry ministers who have rubbed shoulders with MBS and MBZ over these past few months. There is, as yet, a deafening silence from The Khan and his minions.
Via WhatsApp
What a crying shame that The Great Khan’s once blue-eyed boy, AU, the John Maynard Keynes-Milton Friedman of Pakistan was asked to depart on the strength of one, just one, WhatsApp message. Yes, we kid you not, the remaining dismissals were also delivered via WhatsApp, in the recent reshuffle. Only one man was bestowed the honour of a phone call, informing him about his assumption of a powerful ministry, hitherto the preserve of The Great Khan himself. No prizes for guessing who that was!
Augean stables
Having installed the closeted shadow cabinet at The Khan’s elbow, now all that remains to be done is a clean up of the Punjab’s Augean stables. We hear the NABbers are preparing references on those who might need some persuasion to step aside, and a new law breathing life into a long gone Basic Democracy system is on the anvil. Once passed, this law may prove to be the foundation stone of a Presidential system which will become operational when The Great Khan sees the wisdom of dissolving Parliament.