General Musharaf, President of Pakistan was awoken at 4am by the telephone.
"Jannab, its the Minister of Health here. Sorry to bother you at
this
hour
but there is an emergency! I've just received word that the
Durex
factory
in
Rawalpindi has burned to the ground. It is estimated that the
entire
Pakistani supply of condoms will be gone by the end of the
week."
"What a disaster! The economy will never be able to cope with
all
those
unwanted babies- we'll be ruined!" "We're going to have to ship
some
condoms
in from abroad... "Afghanistan?..." "No chance!! The tabloids
will
have a
field day on this one!" "What about India?" "Maybe- but we
don't
want
them
to know that we are stuck. Call the Indian Prime Minister,
Vajpayee
-
tell him we need one million condoms; coloured gold and green;
ten
inches long
and eight inches thick! That way they'll know how big the Pakis
really
are!!"
Miyan Musharaf called Vajpayee, who agreed to help the Pakis out
in
their
hour of need. Three days later a flight arrived in Islamabad- full
of
boxes.
A delighted General Musharaf rushed out to open the boxes.
He found condoms; 10 inches long; 8 inches thick, all coloured
green
and
gold. He then noticed in small writing on each and every one:-