ANJUM IBRAHIM

Difference between Nawaz, Abbasi

“What is the world coming to!?”

“If you are referring to the three year itch of the Canadian Maulana to compel the sitting government to resign then let me tell you it’s not a new situation….”

“I agree but hasn’t CM realized that his brand of itch guard did not work in the past and there is no reason to believe that it will work in the present…”

“Itch guard?”

“You know getting his supporters to block major roads in major cities.”

“Ah yes but please don’t refer to him as the CM – in this country CM means Chief Minister and our Canadian Maulana is a long way from holding that office.”

“Indeed but I wasn’t referring to him when I said what is the world coming to. I was actually referring to the lack of performance of some proxies….”

“Proxies, by definition, can only deliver so much. And some proxies get too big for their boots and then they deliver in the negative realm if you know what I mean.”

“Actually I don’t.”

“Former Chief of Army Staff Raheel Sharif was appointed by Nawaz Sharif and then proceeded to undermine his decisions – right or wrong the fact was that Sharif was the chief executive of the country and…”

“No I wasn’t going to interrupt you to challenge Sharif’s decisions but to state that a chief of Pakistan army staff is never a proxy once he is appointed. I mean there may be some jostling for the position before the appointment is actually announced but once made the balance of the see saw shifts – it may take one day to shift, it may take months or years but shift it does and…”

“Right I stand corrected. What about Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi? Is he a proxy of Nawaz Sharif?”

“Yes.”

“OK so he was in Quetta, spent the night there and has failed to deliver in saving the Nawaz Sharif-appointed Balochistan Chief Minister.”

“Do you think if Nawaz Sharif had gone himself he would have succeeded to forestall Zehri’s resignation?”

“More chances of his succeeding because he, as a Santa Claus - someone who has a bag full of goodies - has a much larger bag then Abbasi; and that my friend is the difference between a proxy and the real thing.”

“I stand corrected again.”