“I want the letter B expunged from the English alphabet.”

“Are you crazy! There are so many keywords that begin with that letter.”

“Not Pakistan, not democracy, not constitution, not even establishment and need I add the name of none of the political parties begins with a B or has a B somewhere down the line.”

“Don’t be silly you don’t have ownership of the English alphabet, even our spiritual guides do not talk of expunging any letter from the Urdu alphabet, and I am referring to the hated ain (twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet) that was so very onerous to The Third Wife, why are you laughing?”

“Well I don’t........

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