ONCE UPON A TIME, WE HAD HONEST LEADERS. NEVER AGAIN.

[Agricultural Foundation of Pakistan]

This should be shown in our schools, to show what we had and now what
we have.

RESTORE TO US THE PAKISTAN OF 1948.



The Cabinet Meeting was to be held – the ADC inquires, “Sir what will
be served in the meeting…Tea or Coffee?”

Sir looked up and replied sternly…the ADC was taken aback! “Whichever
of the Ministers wish to have tea or coffee should drink it before
leaving his home or when he returns home. The Nation’s money is for
the Nation and not for the Ministers!”

After this instruction – as long as he was the Head of the nation …
nothing except water was ever served in the Cabinet meetings.

Some items amounting to Rs.38.50 paisa had been purchased for the
Governor General's House. He asked for the bill; a few items were
purchased on Mohtarima Fatima Jinnah’s request; he gave instructions
that the amount was to be deducted from her account. A couple of items
were for his own personal use…their amount to be deducted from his
personal account. The remaining items for the Governor House, he said,
may be charged to the Government. Instructions were issued to check
and make sure what may be charged to the government in the future.

When the brother of the British Emperor – Duke of Gloucester was going
to visit Pakistan – the British envoy requested that he receive him at
the Airport. He replied, “if I do so then the British head of state
(King) would have to reciprocate when my brother would visit London”.

Once the ADC placed a Visiting Card before him…he took it and tearing
it said, “Tell him not to come here before me, in future!” the card
was his brother’s and his fault..? Printed under the brother's name
was…Brother of Mohammed Ali Jinnah Governor General Pakistan.

During the severe winter of Ziarat, Col. Ilahi Bukhsh offered him a
pair of socks. He liked them but inquired about the price. On learning
that the price was Rs.2/-, he said the price was high. Col Ilahi
Bukhsh replied that “the socks had been purchased from your account”
to which the answer was that “even my account is a National trust…the
Head of a poor country should not be so extravagant!” With that he
rewrapped the socks and returned them to the Colonel.

He was impressed with the work of a particular Nurse in Ziarat and
asked if he could do something for her. She said that she was from
Punjab and all her family were there, she was alone in Quetta if he
could have her transferred to Punjab.
He answered rather regretfully, “I am sorry…this is in the hands of
the Health Ministry and not the Governor General's jurisdiction.”

He ordered a writing table to be installed in his plane…when the File
reached the Finance Ministry; the finance minister sanctioned it but
sent a written note stating, “The Governor General must ask the
Finance Ministry before issuing any such Order”. He gave a written
apology and withdrew his previous order.

There is the incident of the Railway track barrier/gates which is well
known. When Gul Hasan (his ADC, later C-in-C Pakistan Army) requested
the railway track gates to be opened so that his car may pass over
unhindered, his face turned red in anger and he ordered the gates to
be shut saying, “If I do not obey rules – who else will!”

This was the Pakistan of 60 years ago when Mohammed Ali Jinnah was
Head of State…We have evolved and arrived at this Pakistan of today.
Today, railway track barriers/gates (Phatak) aside – all traffic
signals of the city are switched off- both sides of the main roads are
closed to traffic for an hour before the royal entourage goes by and
the Head of State may announce a 5 crore donation or funding without a
sanction of the Finance Ministry and even after a refusal for a
sanction from the finance ministry, aeroplanes purchased and on orders
from the President and Prime Minister, scores of people are
transferred – as many people’s jobs are terminated and without merit…
by bending of rules and regulations as many personnel given
promotion.

What to mention socks…even the kids pampers are charged to the
National treasury which has brought the expenditure of the President
House to 18 and ½ and the Prime ministers budget to 20 Crores. Here
nephews, sisters, brother in laws hold sway over the portals of power…
where Secretaries receive phone calls from, “I am the brother in law
of the Sahib.”

It is a Pakistan in which the full government is present at the
airport to receive the vice-president of the United States of America.
In the Cabinet meetings, besides tea, coffee full lunches and dinners
are served. The kitchens of the President and prime Minister turn
crores of rupees into smoke annually! This is the advanced Pakistan
where 16 crore poor people are trying to survive!

When the Quaid e Azam left the Governor House on duty there was one
police car with a single Inspector of police who also happened to be a
non-muslim – at the time when Gandhi had been killed and Quaid e
Azam’s life was in danger too – in spite of that the Quaid e Azam went
for his evening walk, enjoyed the fresh air without security…but today
the Heads of State do not travel even ten kilometres without modern
bullet proof cars, expert security guards and well trained Commandos
–

We have failed to instil equality in our country, we have been unable
to establish a dynamic morally upright nation…have not even made it a
peaceful secure modern State!

We the 16 crore poor of Pakistan desire the moral integrity of the
Pakistan of 60 years back…Relieve us of this kind of progress,
prosperity and prestige and restore to us the venerable Pakistan of
the Quaid e Azam…the Pakistan of 1948


remember me in prayers
From
Haseeb Ahmed Noor
AFP/HFP

[Tassawar Malik]

appreciated

--
Dr.Tassawar Hussain Malik
Deputy Agricultural Development Commissioner (DADC)(DD,FSC&RD)
438, B-Block, Pak Secretariat
Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Livestock (MINFAL)
Govt of Pakistan, Islamabad
Tel: +92 51 9201793
Fax: +92 51 9220998
E-mail: dtm...@gmail.com
www.minfal.gov.pk  
www.pakistanseeds.gov.pk