"Yeah, but what if you lose that?" asked Mr. Khubani, who later decreed, "You got a 'Maybe.' " Two men came in with an attachment for a cellphone.
Baseball's Rule 7.08i later decreed that after a runner reaches a base, he is out if "he runs the bases in reverse order for the purpose of confusing the defense or making a travesty of the game".
In 1972, he encouraged the formation of an opposition party and, three years later, decreed that there should be two - one Marxist, one Liberal, as well as his own Socialist party.
Later decrees indicated that the common army was a levy of all able-bodied freemen aged between 16 and 60, with 8-days warning.
These shoot-first-ask-questions-later decrees create deadly situations like the one in which George Zimmerman walked free after shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
Later, a decree published in a special edition of the "Official Gazette" extended the state of siege from Bucharest and a few other large towns to the whole of Roumania.
But Mr. Chaudhry shocked his patron and his country seven years later with decrees that challenged General Musharraf's pre-eminence.
A few months later he decreed that Digicel could not beam microwave transmissions from its towers, potentially rendering them useless.
The announcement of the pending change, to be made by decree later in June, came just days before the first round of legislative elections.
Last month, Mr. Morsi called for elections between April and June, but a court later canceled his decree, throwing the electoral process into limbo.
