Weathervanes
Watch out for the weathervanes, Isbad’s wags are saying. We all know who those are but chief amongst them is Sheeda Tully. We hear he refused to withdraw the Election Commission wallahs’ security detail – at the behest of The Great Khan, of course – saying he will not do anything “controversial” at the say-so of the captain.
Sheeda has also tried to shut down the virulent channel of the Maulvi of the Red Mosque, citing hate speech. The latter in turn has asked the NABbers to have a good look at whether his detractor has “assets beyond his means”.
Sold out
Peshawar’s bakeries, apparently, got swiftly sold out of cakes the minute The Announcement was made. A bit prematurely, as it turned out, but we hear the cakes were flying thick and fast between the homes of the gent who was leaving and the gent who was supposed to be arriving.
Voice of sanity
The goss is that the departing Spy Master tried to be a voice of sanity and told The Great Khan to let go. Sources say the clincher was the One-On-One meeting between him and The Khan, after the Security briefing, when the departing Spy Master convinced his partisan that he was harming him with his intransigence.
But the damage has been done.
No thanks
We hear various Senators went to The Boyz’ HQ recently for a defence briefing, where one loud voice asked No 1 whether he would stay on or ride into the sunset. Apparently, No 1 said unequivocally that he would be going home at the appointed hour.