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| Pak PM has no comments on Condi ‘trash’ |
| 2007-05-26 |
| 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 Minister’s Secretariat source said. “Trash,” was the brief reaction of a Prime Minister’s 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-Condi’s tale of “charm” and “staring down” reached the Prime Minister’s 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 Condi’s 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 (Rice’s) 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 doesn’t think she ever made the comment; ‘I swear I don’t remember any such slip... I don’t 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 |
| #2 Especially an independent an assertive woman with dark skin. I believe the story. Remember how the Pakistani ministers tried to charm that actress who visited for UNICEF? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-26 14:45 |
| #1 A lot of Pakistanis with their panties in a twist.. "aging" "better taste" nothing hurts the Islamic sensibilities more than an independent and assertive woman. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-05-26 13:05 |