Oligarch with oligophrasia
Musharraff talked and talked, Vajpaee listened and listened and took measure of the man. This could have been the psch visit of patient Musharraf with Dr. Vajapee. Diagnosis: Oligarch with oligophrasia
Oligophrasia is a condition or a speech disorder in which a patient utters again and again the same words and phrases at a random sequence. In this instance, Musharraf 's oligophrasia involved use words and phrases such as: Kashmir, central issue, India, Pakistan, nothing else, to talk about. --JPR
dawn.com
Extract:
Deathless end of Agra summit By F. S. Aijazuddin
Is it possible that during the privacy of the six or so hours of one-to-one talks between them, Premier Vajpayee encouraged President Musharraf to do most of talking, and by doing so succeeded in making his loquacious guest believe that he agreed with him? 'The wisdom of silent men is beyond proof, though proverbial in every language,' someone once wrote. 'What basis it has seems to consist in our assumption that anyone who has not spoken to the contrary must agree with us and is therefore, a fellow of infinite wisdom |
