No can do
Business community leaders keep getting messages from No 1 to pick up investment but he keeps getting the same reply, “No can do … until the NABbers are put out to pasture”. Even if The Great Khan were to get off his high horse and assent to this, The Mother of All U-Turns, for the Opposition it’s now a strict no-no. Soon it will be our turn, they say, to turn NAB’s guns on our tormentors.
And anyway, as mentioned above, The Khan’s mood is increasingly belligerent, he’s cried wolf a couple of times (“I will dissolve Parliament”) and the gaps, we hear, are widening. So, no decline of NABbers in sight, no investment, no cooling of the atmosphere, until D-Day. Watch this space.
Cirque du Soleil
As the largest contemporary circus producer in the world, Cirque du Soleil is a world famous entertainment company. But a competitor is on the horizon and it’s what passes for the Government of Pakistan these days. Every day brings a new circus to town. One day it’s the ruling Party splitting at the seams, with sundry entertainers and jesters appearing on prime time TV declaring independence from The Great Khan. On other days, the internecine warfare launched by The Great Khan’s blunders claims one victim, then the next and so on. ZB, once The Great Khan’s Keeper of Secrets, is the latest one to be ditched. We hear he was the blue-eyed boy of No 2, so No 1 lost no time is showing him the door when he became controversial over the Rawalpindi Ring Road.
Then there’s the constant wrangling between the Info Czars and various other elements of this disastrous hybrid regime. The regime’s patrons are getting restive but the solutions they want are being blocked by The Man of Steel. He has them over a barrel now, so let’s see what new contortions the circus brings.
Packed & ready to fly
Rumour has it that many of The Great Khan’s foreign imports are packing up, getting ready to leave. Mr ZB has already left the building, and they say he will soon be followed by the Banker of the State, who is dying to return to his Eye Em Effed job. Then the guy who liaises between Uncle Sam and The Boyz, recently elevated to ministerial status, has been told to fasten his seat belt, if he is to stay on, and prepare for a rocky ride. Lest we forget, he’s also an import – from the Land of Opportunity.
