Here’s an interesting insight about “The Man from L.O.N.D.O.N” from my Toyota days when I headed their Marketing and Sales in the early nineties. Nawaz was then doing his first stint as PM. One day, in mid or late 1992, I received a call from the PM house requesting that the Government wanted to officially buy a Toyota LEXUS for the PM. It was Capt. Safdar. Not sure if he was married to Maryam Safdar then! Safdar’s tone, as begets small people, finding themselves in positions of power, was very haughty, imperious and arrogant. So, I decided to put him in his place by asking for his PMA course number, immediately sharing mine, knowing he would most likely be junior to me, and said. Deeply humbled by the response to ‘A Short Personal Story’ Haan Safdar, buthaao.What can I do for you? His tone changed immediately and very politely, prefixed and postfixed with Sirs, he asked if we could order a Lexus for the PM. I said, I’ll check and asked him to call me back the next day. Yes, deliberately told him to call me back, just to rub it in. I enjoyed putting arrogant flunkies like him in … Continue reading Nawaz Sharif’s Lexus!