“Starmer needs to learn from us Pakistanis instead of blindly supporting Israeli values ….”

“I disagree — he is following the US policy to snip all anti-Semitism in the bud even though it lost him the Muslim vote.”

“But that’s silly. The British public is angered at Israeli genocide of Gaza now into its third year, its support for the settlers ransacking and killing Palestinians in the West Bank, its attacks on Lebanon, its ceasefire violations that number more than a 1000 I reckon….”

“That fellow Mehmud Abbas….”

“Hey should at least have the courage to admit the flaw in his policy of engagement with Israel.”

“Bush’s legacy is truly gone – from referring to those opposed to Israeli hegemonistic designs in the region as the axis of evil, to now being referred to as the axis of resistance.”

“Hamm but what should or could Starmer learn from us?”

“Let me give you a hint, our Prime Minister has reportedly ordered the Board of Investment (BOI) to merge with the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) and…..why are you frowning?”

“Foreign direct investment has fallen dramatically – from 1.5 billion dollars July-March last year, no great shakes in any case if we consider that India attracted more than 50 billion dollars last year, to 410.7 million dollars in the same period this year….”

“The merger….”

“SIFC was established in June 2023 and BOI dates back to God knows how many decades!”

“OH, so you want the BOI to be dissolved, I guess. But what about the man who heads it – Aleem Khan.

First, you took away his control over the Ministry of Privatisation, remember the PIA privatisation fiasco, which he said he was not involved in, that he still heads by the way, and now BoI.”

“He still has Communications, though I am not sure what that entails other than a flagged car and protocol. But I tell you this shows that dumping of The Man Who Must Remain Nameless, Faceless and Voiceless is no longer…”

“Shut up. Anyway, Wes Streeting is, or perhaps more accurately, may make a run for his boss’s job. Now if Starmer were the Pakistani Prime Minister, he would have merged the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Streeting’s portfolio, with that of the Prime Minister, and so the guy would be without a job.”

“I heard that the Prime Minister has some differences with the Minister for Interior? Can he merge…”

“Stop right there.”

“OK, but I am not sure if there is a tradition of wearing multiple hats in the UK?”

“Starmer is trying to change tradition: you gotta give him that! So why not in this too?”

“I can’t argue with that.”