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Citibankers are living it up these days.

There’s Hashim Jawan Bakht, the current Punjab finance minister. There’s Zubair Soomro, recently appointed as the chairman of NBP.

They’ve had it good historically, of course. Remember the Citibanker who came in out of nowhere, became the prime minister of the country, and went back to nowhere.

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Incredibly crass tweets by the finance and human rights ministers in the aftermath of the dreadful terrorist attack on the church in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The human rights minister made a strange simile between the Sri Lankan team attack in Lahore and the attack in New Zealand, which the Bangladeshi team barely missed. She had to delete the tweet and tender a half-apology.

Then, the finance minister, in a manner typical of his prime minister boss, made a strange reference to Usman Khwaja’s performance on the cricket pitch, contrasting it with the terrorist’s role. When he was criticise