{"id":3814,"date":"2026-11-04T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:03:49","slug":"minister-of-interior-and-chairman-of-the-pcb-is-like-a-wandering-albatross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Minister of Interior and Chairman of the PCB is like a wandering albatross"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is such a struggle to come to work every day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow come? There is not that much traffic in the federal capital anymore because half of our civil servants paid salaries from our tax rupees stay at home as part of the government\u2019s austerity drive \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah due to the Middle East conflict, I had thought that the current round of negotiation was succeeding \u2014 JD Vance wrote a less, how can I put it, less IMF type of letter to the Iranians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere does the IMF come in? Last Iran applied for a Fund loan, 6 billion dollars, was in March 2020 for COVID-19 relief, the first the country requested since almost 1960, and I think it was opposed by the US so \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said JD Vance\u2019s letter was less harsh than the IMF press releases and documents that we in Pakistan are routinely getting under the ongoing Extended Fund Facility programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be facetious anyway on Monday the US and Israeli planes attacked some Iranian islands contiguous to the Strait of Hormuz, so much for JD Vance\u2019s less insulting tone \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I said it was a struggle to come to work I wasn\u2019t referring to the price of petrol which the government is considering reducing but \u2026 \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it is a struggle for you to come to work because your car is old and repairs are costing you a hell of a lot more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s true, but the government has already approved or is about to approve used car imports by commercial importers and \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight so not that either?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNope it\u2019s the dratted cricket teams who have been in the country for over a month. Where ever they go the road blocks are \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard that, in Lahore too people are complaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMust be loyalists of The Man Who Must Remain Nameless, Voiceless and Faceless \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell the thing is that the dual hatted Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board is like a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span, and his wing span now extends from Islamabad to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Punjab\u2019s heartland Lahore and \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCareful my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMian sahib is out of the country \u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut a faithful ally Salik Hussain is here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat goes up must come down at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is such a struggle to come to work every day.\u201d \u201cHow come? There is not that much traffic in the federal capital anymore because half of our civil servants paid salaries from our tax rupees stay at home as part of the government\u2019s austerity drive \u2026\u201d \u201cYeah due to the Middle East conflict, I had thought that the current round of negotiation was succeeding \u2014 JD Vance wrote a less, how can I put it, less IMF type of letter to the Iranians.\u201d \u201cWhere does the IMF come in?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}