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Pak adds humour to politics on virtual world
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NewsByte on 17 May, 2008 02:32:34
 
Islamabad, May 17: With the honeymoon between PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari
and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif being rather shortlived, Pakistanis are now having
fun in the virtual world by posting imaginary conversations between the two
leaders.
Two photographs of happy-looking Mr Zardari and Mr Sharif when they had just
won the February 18 general election and two more recent shots of them forcing a
smile after the talks between them in London failed, have been posted on
allthingspakistan.Com, which has invited netizens to comment on "what have they
been thinking?"
In one of the imaginary conversations, a very pleased-looking Mr Zardari says
to himself: "I love a friend who is dumb as a door nail". Mr Sharif, who is also
in a self-congratulatory mood, says to himself, "I think I fooled him... The
surgeon was right, a scalpfull of hair and power are highly correlated."
Adil Najam, an avid blogger who has invited netizens to put words into the two
leaders’ mouth, said, "Sometimes the only way to deal with a really serious
situation is to make it funny. So, here is our little experiment to see what
words you would put into the leaders’ mouth".
"We know the storyline (of what is going in Pakistan). What we do not know is
what these guys have been actually thinking and saying. So, let’s try to
imagine what that might be. Help us write the dialogue to this comic strip," he
said.
There are two sets of dialogues one between Mr Zardari and Mr Sharif when they
formed an alliance, and the other when Mr Sharif’s ministers resigned from the
Cabinet after failing to agree with the PPP on the issue of restoration of
judges. (PTI)