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Pakistan minister caught smuggling diamonds from South Africa for Khakis. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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A high powered federal min recently narrowly avoided a stint in the clink and huge embarrassment for the government of Pakistan. The min, in charge of producing stuff for the khakis’ use, traveled to South Africa and was on his way back to the Land of the Pure from Johannesburg when the machine went beep-beep-beep as he passed through it. Alerted, the special security squad at the airport took the minister aside to frisk him good and proper.

<b>And what did they find on his person but diamonds worth a fortune. The gems were in loose form, divided into neat packets, stored all over the min’s person. Airport security told the min that he was committing a crime in smuggling gems out of the South Africa and that they would have to report the matter to the authorities. The min, frantic, called the Pakistan mission in Joburg which tried to intercede with the airport security staff wielding lame excuses like “diplomatic immunity” </b>etc.

The security staff then passed the matter on to their superiors and the South African authorities were having none of it. The mission then made contact with the highest and mightiest in Isloo who pulled some hefty strings and got the minister off the hook. Diamonds, it seems, are a boy’s best friend
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