“The Maulana was visited by the Prime Minister, ostensibly to ask after his health.”

“He went with flowers and…and…did he take any honey?”

“Don’t you dare be facetious on this count.”

“Excuse me?”

“Let me put it this in no uncertain terms: The Maulana is not Gandapur and doesn’t take honey.”

“Gandapur is not the only politician who has a partiality to honey, if I recall there was a Pakistan Peoples’ Party leader who also had a honey bottle in his hospital room........

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