03-14-2008, 12:44 AM
A letter not less than a highly learned Professor Roedar Ahmad Khan of Peshawar has appeared in your esteem of 06 March 2008 on the subject. Being a conscientious citizen I felt shame reading it. The most senior intellectual Mr. S.M. Zafar mid 80s took a mission creating awareness amongst the public that no socialism, no parliamentism, no socialism etc will deliver unless the people themselves start recognizing their own rights and start struggling for them. The learned professor claims the Secretary of the Nazim demanded and he paid cash Rs. 1200 in addition to already paid Rs. 800 in connection with a divorce paper. When the Nazim came to know about it he directed the Professor to get it back from the Secretary. Now the Professor Sahib is crying in press over this corruption in fact thus cleaning his own dirty linen in the public. Professor Roedar is a highly educated person. He teaches morality to his students and one of the lesson of morality is the civic sense. The point is as to why did the Professor in the first place give ârishwatâ? Does not he know that giver of rishwat is not less than taker in our religion? The divorce document was just a routine document. It makes no difference if issuance is delayed a day or two. If the Secretary was obstructing the smooth issuance of a legal document, provided there was no shortcoming to cover for which Professor initially gave Rs. 800/-, Professor should had addressed in writing the Nazim just enquring when the certificate will be issued. It would had cautioned the secretary. The Professor even lacks the courage of naming the devil and has just mentioned a Naizm office without indicating it in the larger interest of the community. Pakistanâs first Ombudsman Mr. Justice Sardar Iqbal stated the society in itself was corrupt which remained silent on injustices treating those as minor thus encouraging the bureaucracy. I have expect for once some 35 years back in my too young age has never ever given any rishwat for any of my legal work and all my works are get done smoothly as against any slightest sign of injustice immediately I take up the matter with Head of the concerned Department in writing and never verbally. The corruption is more in public than the government departments. It is a fact.