Before you go on and talk about how the League is a party of the rich (it is, though) you should know that in the recent budget, they levied new taxes on luxury items like Birkin bags and other hideous items made from ostrich and crocodile skin.
This has had the swish set upset. Why, God, WHY?
Till someone else pointed out (not many from the set is particularly bright) that they have never bought their bags from abroad and bring it in their luggage. Phew! Close call.
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How to solve a problem like the Benazir Income Support Program? Makes sense. Is popular. But is the previous regime’s brainchild.
The League thought about banning it but the donor agencies would have none of it. The League then thought about renaming it, only to realise it would require legislation and the PPP and its allies might block it through the Senate.
Meanwhile, the hapless former-PPP-now-PML-N senator who has been entrusted the programme isn’t being treated like a boss by his mandarin-in-chief. The secretary in question won’t even meet the man. He even wrote to the prime minister on the issue several times but to no avail. Apparently the aforementioned civil servant is in the good books of an all-powerful bureaucratic don who is in the Sharif’s inner circle.
