"I am on tenterhooks."
"There is no need - India will bad mouth us about Yadav's death sentence, but it's not as if there will be a war."

"Well, to be honest, I would welcome a full scale war more than these terror attacks at shrines, in markets, in residential streets, all over the country..."

"Anyway, I want to know why we don't bad mouth India as much as India bad mouths us at an official level."

"I think we do it's just that no one is listening to us."

"I don't understand."

"India is one of the few countries in the world that can actually buy expensive defence equipment as well as other items that the recession-ridden West wants to sell and all we have is AID begging for more money."

"Hey, don't be facetious so you reckon no one is listening to us because we have no money?"

"Yes and look at the ones chosen to bad mouth India. Khawaja Asif begins all his sentences with the cry of the goat... main, main, main..."

"But a goat goes baa, baa, baa in English!"

"That's a sheep remember baa baa black sheep... a goat perhaps goes bleat bleat in English and main main in Urdu and I ask you who will heed the cry of a goat."

"Mian sahib..."

"Doesn't talk of the Indians other than that he wants to open trade with India and trade will transform Pakistan from a developing to a developed country."

"I thought AID had already done that!"

"Don't be facetious. But doesn't Mian sahib realise that the only item India pays hard dollars for is defence equipment; and India won't buy that from us even if we had it to sell, all other imports have tariff and non-tariff barriers slapped on..."

"Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance....however long it takes."

"Would it be while Mian sahib is still the prime minister?

"That I am not sure, what with Panama verdict due any day now..."

"Now who is being facetious."-Business Recorder