“How can you tell the man with the power from others?”

“Power?”

“You know the real decision maker rather than someone who may have the trappings of power but no power.”

“Trapping? Seriously? That word went out of style decades ago.”

“I don’t agree anyway have you noticed that throughout the world the man who wields power sits at the head of the table unless of course there is a team of negotiators with him or her and then they sit opposite to each other.”

“Our First Lady of Punjab does not….”

“She is a trailblazer but going back to a seating arrangement in practice world-wide that sounds like you are resuscitating the now dead ideology of globalization - there is no free movement of peoples or capital or even goods what with the tariffs.”

“As a Pakistani national........

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