One minute you are considered a professional par excellence and the ambassador-designate to Beijing. Next minute your appointment is on hold. The mubariks stop pouring in and you are left wondering what went wrong. According to Islamabad insiders, the problem actually lies not in the person's CV but in a core government objective - the Jiyala policy. The list of Jiyalas to be accommodated is so long that recruiting an army of roving ambassadors, assigning doctors to reconstruct the administrative system and hiring artists to get PIA up and running will not solve the problem. You need another million jobs to accommodate the butchers, the bakers and candlestick makers now holding Jiyala placards. Perhaps that is why our ambassador-designate to the UN is still waiting - and wondering. * * * * * * * * * * * What is the story behind the PM's bungled first address to the nation? According to insiders, the PM was so furious at the mismanaged affair that he let the newly appointed MD of PTV Dr Shahid Masood have a piece of his mind. As soon as the much embarrassed PM departed, Dr Shahid decided to tackle things 'mere mutabiq.' He called a marathon meeting where he sacked the Deputy Managing Director along with a few technicians and let everyone within earshot have a tongue-lashing. However he failed to admit that the buck stops at the MD. Hamare mutabiq hosting a talk show is a piece of cake compared to running a media corporation. The good medicine doctor must get a crash course in management before the PM makes his second address to the nation and another batch of subordinates get the sacking. * * * * * * * * * * * Prime Minister Gilani, en route to Washington, made a day's stopover in London with his vast entourage putting up at the swanky five-star Intercontinental Hyde Park and costing thousands of pounds. The ostensible reason for the overnight stop: to meet Gordon Brown or see Nawaz Sharif? No, they say, he wanted to arrive fresh for his audience with George Bush So much for the optics of tightening belts. * * * * * * * * * * * St. Tropez, that holiday resort in the South of France, may be the celebrated high-rolling spot for the super rich, but they never included many Pakistanis in the past. No more. Apparently, apart from the other rich and famous from Pakistan, two brothers are making waves, if not at the scale of first lady Carla Bruni, in this French holiday enclave. The two raising the Pakistani flag are said to be a fixture on St. Tropez's many night spots and book-me-a-year-in-advance restaurants with guards and hanger-ons in tow. They ride the most expensive cars, order the most expensive bubbly and the highest price tag vintage champagne. Who are these high-profile moneybags and where is their money pipeline? You don't want to know.