There’s only so many things that Shahbaz Sharif can do, really. If you ask those who know he’s the one who’s got the ship in shape. And if you ask those who know even more, he pulled up nothing short of a miracle by getting big brother N and Ch Nisar to make up. Ch sb shook N’s hands alright, but he ain’t backtracking on Kh Asif. Now there’s a pickle right there. They need to be on the ‘same page’. There’s a war going on, after all. But the defence minister and interior minister aren’t even on talking terms. How do you make progress here? Obviously it’s bigger than Shahbaz. Who’ll end this fight simmering since the painful days of the Sharifs’ exile?
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Khan sb’s made a point of following the judicial commission closely. He made it happen, after all. Remove the dharna from the scene and there’s no accountability, really. But the law has its rules. And Kaptaan waltzes in, sits cross-legged, even chews gum all the time. The wigs find that insulting to no end. They might not have walked Oxford’s gardens like him, but they want to be respected, even if justice delivery isn’t exactly their forte. Brings to mind Ian Botham’s two-pence about Imran about the time of their trial. If that’s what Oxford taught him, he’d be happy with lesser education any day.