06-19-2010, 10:36 PM
The Supreme Court has taken suo moto the case of Pakistani Ambassador Mr. Risajani appointing almost entire of his family in Pakistan International School Damascus at a total collective monthly salary of more than Rs. 3.2 million for the family. He sent old staff home, forced every child to wear Chinese shoes he imported. In the supreme court he produced allegedly a fake letter from the School Board Chairman to the newspapers editors praising the Ambassador. A sensitive reader expressed here that soon the new ambassadors will start migrating to their posting places with their clans and the worthy newspaper gave it a heading "Family migration". A similar report has appeared three days back that the new Pakistani Ambassador in Saudi Arabia has paid about 3 lac Saudi Rials as back salary to the Principal whose service was terminated by the Saudi court awarding lashes. Without any comments I wish to enlighten the readers of this esteem as a refresher an old article by late Syed Binaman Rizvi who was murdered a few years back in Lahore to create political unrest only. Binaman Rizvi was an old worker of Tehreek-e-Pakistan and worked under Quaid-e-Azam. He was a true old Muslim Leagui and from the rear honest today extinct commodity. A year or so before his death he wrote an article appearing in two series entitled "Spoots (darlings) of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs". He wrote that there was a time when influential wanted to get a job in the Customs Department which tendency has today changed now they wish to join the Foreign Service for postings in Pakistani Missions abroad but preferably in those countries where there exists a Pakistani community school which serve for such people, in the words of Rizvi, a gold mine. During the same period late intellectual and senior writer Irashad Ahmad Haqqani also wrote his column in two series entitled "Affairs of Pakistanis Schools abroad".
