The events of the last few weeks suggest that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must have shot an Albatross some time in his life, for nothing seems to be going right for him. His call to Donald Trump after the latter was declared president-elect of the US and Trump’s response was mangled so badly by our publicity boys that it annoyed some Americans. Then there was this move by the assemblies to raise their emoluments by 146 per cent because they couldn’t make both ends meet which met with criticism from the media. And then there was this trip of Pakistan’s adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, who on instructions from his chief took a team to the Heart of Asia Conference to be slighted and cold-shouldered by Narendra Modi Pakistan’s external enemy and his Asian cronies, vividly portrayed by the Express Tribune cartoonist Sabir Nazar in the paper’s Thursday issue. I have nothing against Sartaj Aziz. In fact, I’ve always liked him. He is a gentleman who reminds me a lot of an English actor I once knew, an actor of inexhaustible goodwill with a delicate resilient intelligence who had been doomed to be cast in the wrong role.