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Pak PM has no comments on Condi trash
The editorial in "the Nation" is even worse. "Mr. Aziz would undoubtedly have more grace than the biography gives him credit for. And better taste" The story of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz trying to charm the aging American beauty in the corridors of power Condoleezza Rice but ending up babbling and staring him down is nothing more than trash, a Prime Ministers Secretariat source said. Trash, was the brief reaction of a Prime Ministers Secretariat source over what the Rice biography said about Shaukat Aziz. There is nothing more we could offer to such a nonsensical script, the source said on condition of anonymity. The Foreign Office spokesman had earlier made a similar comment, terming Rice remarks trash, during one of her weekly press briefings. It is learnt that when the extracts of Aziz-Condis tale of charm and staring down reached the Prime Ministers office, it was taken aback. Aziz was approached but, according to the source, the premier said this baloney does not deserve a comment from him. Let the Foreign Office react to this. The biography titled Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power by Newsweek chief of correspondents and senior editor Marcus Mabry has been recently launched in the United States. Referring to Condis first tour to South Asia in March 2005 during which she also visited Pakistan, the author writes, Yet, when Rice sat down with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who fancies himself as ladies man, Aziz puffed himself up and held forth in what he obviously thought was his seductive baritone (He bragged to Western diplomats, no less that he could conquer any woman in two minutes). (He tried) this Savile Row-suited gigolo kind of charm: Pakistan is a country of rich traditions, staring in (Rices) eyes, a participant at the meeting recalled. There was this test of wills where he was trying to use all his charms on her as a woman, and she just basically stared him down. By the end of the meeting, he was babbling. It is said that the 2005 meeting of Aziz and Condi was not one on one but was attended by many others. The source said there was no question of charming Rice in a gathering of so many people. And charming a woman like Condi would require special skills and extra guts, the source said. At the age of 53, Condoleezza Rice is still a single and it is said that she has her own fixations. In the same biography, it is said that once she addressed President Bush as My husb-. They point to her remark at a Washington dinner party in 2004, when she said, As I was telling my husb- before abruptly correcting herself, As I was telling President Bush... (Rice told me she doesnt think she ever made the comment; I swear I dont remember any such slip... I dont think it happened, And neither do any number of other guests at the dinner, though some swear they heard her say husband.). Posted by: John Frum 2007-05-26 |
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