(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer)
A nervous hustle has ensued in Islamabad as members of the federal cabinet tried to inform an adamant Prime Minister that it would be inappropriate to cite the nation team’s victory in the 1992 ICC World Cup in the list of achievements of the first hundred days of the new government.
“The PM is absolutely determined for this to make the list and be a part of our publicity campaigns,” said a senior minister on the condition of anonymity. “And I understand. We really don’t have much to show for ourselves in these 100 days. But we obviously can’t use this.”
“Most of us are at a loss when he asks why we can’t use it,” said another cabinet member. “We lack the capacity to explain it to him. We also lack the capacity of understand why it needs to be explained in the first place.”
Rumours of the PM’s plan have made it to the supporters of the PTI and they say, if true, they will support it wholeheartedly.
“Sir Imran is right,” said Sadaqat Bhatti, admin of the Tsunami Revolution PTI (studz&princesses) “The ‘92 World Cup was a seminal moment, whose effects have kept on spilling over in history, leading to this very day, when Sir Imran is in power. So, if you argue like that, the ‘92 victory lives on even in these first hundred days so more than two and a half decades later, furthermore, this statement is also right because…”
