“self-made men”; it is said: “Worship their creator”. It does not apply to President Hamid Karazai. The Berlin Conference, agreed to prop a person, as choreographed by “The Company”. Hope, readers know, what that means?

On fateful day of the 15th of June, 2008, President Karzai made a stark naked military threat to my country – in a televised, Press Conference. He stated:

Whatever one would say as dictated by the Masters or circumstance should better be left to the Foreign Office spokesman plus Baitullah or Molvi Umer.

’Excellency in your neighborhood, you have no enemies. So why have friends, who may dislike your statements intensely? We, for sure, understand your compulsions. But fail to comprehend: Why not in camera, instead of on it. It can’t be refuted even diplomatically.

Let us adopt & quote an exchange between Mr Churchill and Lady Astor as thus. “if you were my neighbour, I would give you poison”. The response was: “if you were my neighbour, I’ll take it”.

Celebrities, stars and sportsmen, from Miss Spears to a still-born cricketer are in the news. They do have a dope test regime. But to ask the head of an occupied tiny city state: What he had been smoking, is considered undiplomatic.

The viceroys of India were better groomed. One of them, is stated to have addressed the council of native members, as thus: “In the name of His Britannica Majesty the King of England and emperor of India, I want to bring about the following changes – with your permission and without it – if necessary”. Viceroys used to be attorneys-in-fact of the crown. But the same could not apply to a Company asset?