Bone tired
A close friend of The Great Khan rang him from out of town a couple of days ago, to express his solidarity and support and to ask how he was faring. The Khan was in his container and took his friend’s call. The latter told our mole that he felt The Khan sounded exhausted and depressed. In fact, he said, he had never heard him “so tired and so low.”
Happy ending
A foreign journo, who fell out of favour with the spooks, and had to leave the Land of the Pure, returned to his First World home, and missed the hurly burly of Pakistani politics. Interested in all things Paki, he began to follow The Great Khan’s former wife on social media and took issue with one of her statements about the country. She was most miffed, we hear, and sent a vituperative reply. This was such an overreaction that another hack, a conscientious woman, became part of the struggle on social media and came to the journo’s rescue, defending him and taking issue with ex-Mrs Khan. The journo was touched by the lady’s gesture and never having met her, offered to take her out to dinner whenever their paths crossed. Happily, their paths did cross; the journo took the lady out to dinner as promised and soon they were friends, gradually to fall in love and finally to tie the knot. A happy ending!
Hang in there!
Following the meeting in Lahore between The Man of Steel and Hubby, a confidante of The Man got a call from RM 007, a former Min of Int and Hubby’s right hand man. RM was calling from a safe phone to a safe phone and he asked for a message to be relayed to The Man -- Hubby urged The Man of Steel never to resign from his premiership under pressure from The Khan & Co. And as for FIRs, RM said, “there was a time when half our cabinet had FIRs lodged against it, so don’t worry. Hang in there!”