One of Dawn's op-eds today speaks about why Nawaz Sharif should let his younger brother, Shahbaz Sharif, take the mic at least on issues that are trivial in nature.

The crux of the article being that Shahbaz has been waiting in the wings for far too long and there won't be a better time than this to let him fly — of course at lower altitudes and when the weather is clear.

In the meantime, Nawaz could try and perfect his new image as an 'ideologue' and also focus on his accountability court business.

The author rightly uses the elder Sharif's blaming of the caretaker setup for the latest round of power outages to make his point. Yes, Nawaz's attempt at trivialising the matter and evading responsibility for load-shedding was pretty lame.

But a point that might have gone unnoticed is that Shahbaz was no less lamer on the topic. In fact, his views were pretty much identical to Nawaz's. He too had absolved their family's government of any blame.

"The masses should blame the interim government and not me or (N League supremo) Nawaz Sharif if the power crisis recurs after tomorrow," he had said at the beginning of this month.

So aren't the two brothers one and the same? What one does, so does the other. Just saying...

This way if you want to read the whole thing.