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If this process
continues and a systematic in flux of educated Sindhi people from interior
Sindhi villages settle down in
Karachi
it will change the local political demography.
Due to Afghan
war and insecurity in
North
Western
Frontier
Province
a large population has migrated to
Karachi
and almost surrounded
Karachi
with new settlements which will help Sindhis in the long run if they also
continue the same process of settling in
Karachi.
This process in
turn will reduce MQM influence and a new balance of power will evolve. It is
therefore suggested to encourage educated Sindhis to migrate to
Karachi
and settle in secured pockets of
Karachi
to reduce MQM political force which will further help overall Sindhi cause.
MQM is already
showing concerns about Talibanization of Karachi which is merely resentment
against immigrant force of NWFP which has taken control of the transport
industry of
Karachi and
have acquired enough power to paralyze the city if asked to do so. Local
Sindhi leaders and intellectuals must open dialogue with leaders of this
emerging force to reduce MQM’s totalitarian influence in
Karachi.
It is further
observed that leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party is busier in
consolidating their power base and achieve rewards for coming in power
rather than planning future of their motherland.
Feudal and
career corrupt bureaucrats have sent their children for higher education and
systematically inserted them in bureaucracy. Most of mediocre sons and
daughters of Sindhi feudal have captured key positions in policy making
organizations hindering emergence of middle class from Sindh. Most of
feudals have been elected in assemblies and in conjunction with this
feudalistic bureaucracy they are more interested in helping their feudal
power base rather than helping their people causing severe resentment in the
middle class of Sindh.
I will urge all
the Sindhi officers to please divert some of your time to help at least one
or two families of your native village or town which can revitalize our
youth and bring us at par with other communities. I was very impressed from
social and cultural work done by Shikarpur Officer’s Association who are
interacting within their home town people. Officers of large townships
should establish social and cultural organizations and use network skills to
help each other and people from their respective hometowns.
In last several
years Karachi
has been transformed into an international City with numerous infrastructure
projects completed by a young and dynamic Nazim of Karachi. Nazims of
interior Sindh have misused and misappropriated funds given to their
constituencies where as
Karachi
has emerged as more versatile business hub and a better place to live.
Witnessing a massive improvement in the infrastructure of the city I was
forced to compliment Mustafa Kamal Nazim of Karachi for superior work he has
done for his constituents.
The leadership
of PPP must educate Nazims, MPA’s and MNA’s of Sindh to take up model
projects within their constituencies which will further strengthen their
voter base. Sindhi bureaucrats and political leaders must help youth and
educated young men and women of their respective areas to get settled in
Karachi
and other metropolitan cities of
Sind.
If every influential person take task of settling educated class of their
respective village or city it can change the fate of this weak nation. This
will further reduce influence of MQM and strengthen PPP power base.
During my
Television interviews I urged people of interior Sindh to form Citizen’s
Committees within smaller towns and prepare written list of things to do for
the elected representatives of their respective constituencies. Such lists
should be submitted to their MPAs, MNAs or Ministers and if not followed
through such committee members should sit on hunger strike in front of
residences of these elected representatives in
Karachi
or Islamabad.
The media should be informed in an advance to give them national coverage
which is a very strong tool to get attention from these elected
representatives. As mentioned above due to feudal system as well as new
feudal bureaucracy local citizens are in constant danger from police
brutality if they raise voice against their leaders within their
constituencies but in
Karachi
it will bring better results due to media coverage. Sindh Television is
performing great public service to unite people of interior Sindh and
deserve helping hand from all the quarters in the form of advertising and
logistic help.
The last thing I
would suggest would be to establish some kind of
Sindh
Human
Service
Center
at out skirts of
Karachi where
people from interior Sindh can come and stay at subsidized rates and be
given some logistic help to solve their minor problems. People like Suleman
Kalhoro who is doing community service on a daily basis may be requested to
become Executive Director of this center to help poor people of interior
Sindh.
The author of the book Manzoor A. Memon, former Advisor to Houston
Mayor for South Asian Affairs, in fact, was highly inspired by his
late father Haji Karamullah Memon, who started his career as a clerk
in 1938 until he retired as a Provincial Secretary. After serving 42
years honorably and honestly when retired, he did not have a house
even to dwell or any automobile to ride while he spent rest of his
life in author’s home in seclusion without being appreciated from
government end. He said that by clinging to principles so strictly
he became Deputy Commissioner in 1971, he always took his government
cook and assigned ration making sure to get his meals while going on
tours. He never used government-provided automobiles for his private
purposes nor did he ever let his kids to use them for personal use.
He was not only honest but also very strong at his will and made
decisions strictly abiding by the government regulations. His
judicial opinions were never vacated by any superior court including
the Supreme Court due to his being an authority over Revenue Law.
Nizamuddin Memon who worked as a close advisor to the late Shaheed
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan showed utmost
honesty and dedication towards the public service and is living a
very down-to-earth life in Larkana. The author’s conscience replied
him before sleeping, Yes, at the end of the day people who are true,
honest, dedicated and live by good ethics may not be bestowed with
high-profile positions and rewarded financially by the system but
they sleep peacefully at night as they have clean conscience.
However, people who wrongly manipulate public service and take undue
advantage of the system to make financial advances, most of the time
fall back as the system catches up with them at the end. Author have
seen such people on the ran, altering the course of their lives to
get away from sinful past of irregularities and illegal financial
gains. As social values and rules are changing so drastically of
society but the barometer of honesty remained inside of one’s
conscience. If the inner voice says that what is going on is right
and based on hundred percent honesty then it is fine. The dilemma
with honest people is that they speak the truth which never takes
them to sublime heights. Therefore they do not reach the peak of
their careers and are particularly deprived of top positions in
public service. However experience shows that manipulators, liars,
crooks, corrupt and dishonest people of our society reach to the
high authority positions. In turn, they frustrated the honest people
who always wonder if honesty is the best policy. This is unfortunate
that our society doesn’t recognise honesty as a supreme human
feature but considers it a weakness and discourages people who walk
along this track. Unfortunately, our rulers also sideline people who
talk straight, follow and preach honest ways of doing things. This
is the prime reason one will always sees crooks in power and honest
people like deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry strolling from
one place to other for seeking justice. At the end of the book, the
reader would notice that with so many fights for sake the truth and
undergoing recurring losses because of honesty, the author had
achieved financial targets and now live a prosper and flourish life
and celebrate the unshakably true philosophy “honesty is the best
policy”. The book, which, in fact, is a memoirs of an expatriate
Pakistani living in American for over two decades, when posted in
internet edition, like many other peoples, even President Asif Ali
Zardari also came back with his comments: “Shaheed Mohtarma’s vision
for the emancipation of the people across country, including
farmers, industrial workers and intelligentsia, will be implemented
and we will make efforts to address the problems being faced by the
people of Pakistan.”
Weighing their lives raises a question in author mind: “Is
honesty the best policy?” Following the footprints of elders,
when author joined the public service and volunteered his time
to work as an Advisor to the Mayor of the City of Houston for a
salary of $1.00 per year, he kept the same standards of honesty,
hard work and high degree of integrity and was helpful to
everybody who approached him. His friends who worked with him in
the same political circles achieved contracts worth millions but
he considered it a dishonesty to manipulate public service to
make my financial ends meet. He, therefore, never put hands in
any business dealing with the City of Houston and kept all his
financial involvement in the neighbouring city of Deer Park,
Texas. After working six years with Mayor Lee Brown and one year
with Mayor Bill White, what he accomplished in his community
service maybe forgotten by the community but, time and again,
the same question echoed in author brain: “Is honesty the best
policy?”
The author’s conscience replied him before sleeping, Yes, at the
end of the day people who are true, honest, dedicated and live
by good ethics may not be bestowed with high-profile positions
and rewarded financially by the system but they sleep peacefully
at night as they have clean conscience. However, people who
wrongly manipulate public service and take undue advantage of
the system to make financial advances, most of the time fall
back as the system catches up with them at the end. Author have
seen such people on the ran, altering the course of their lives
to get away from sinful past of irregularities and illegal
financial gains.
The author of the book revealed that his father supported a
family of eight with his modest salary and educated every one
and earned such a reputation of character that even the
President of the country would not dare to ask him to do an
illegal favour. The family lived modestly but respectfully and
ultimately author concluded that honesty is the best policy
though it may not raise you to a position you deserve. Rest
assured, you would have inner peace and sound sleep at night
with satisfaction that you have never made a buck illegally.
As social values and rules are changing so drastically of
society but the barometer of honesty remained inside of one’s
conscience. If the inner voice says that what is going on is
right and based on hundred percent honesty then it is fine. The
dilemma with honest people is that they speak the truth which
never takes them to sublime heights. Therefore they do not reach
the peak of their careers and are particularly deprived of top
positions in public service. However experience shows that
manipulators, liars, crooks, corrupt and dishonest people of our
society reach to the high authority positions. In turn, they
frustrated the honest people who always wonder if honesty is the
best policy. This is unfortunate that our society doesn’t
recognise honesty as a supreme human feature but considers it a
weakness and discourages people who walk along this track.
Unfortunately, our rulers also sideline people who talk
straight, follow and preach honest ways of doing things. This is
the prime reason one will always sees crooks in power and honest
people like deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry strolling
from one place to other for seeking justice.
The purpose of writing this book is to spread the concept that
hard work and honest dealings may not raise you to material
heights but would give you inner peace which is eternal for a
person’s happiness.
At the end of the book, the reader would notice that with so
many fights for sake the truth and undergoing recurring losses
because of honesty, the author had achieved financial targets
and now live a prosper and flourish life and celebrate the
unshakably true philosophy “honesty is the best policy”.
While serving with ruling elite of American society and living
with common citizens of America for over two decades, the author
of the book Manzoor A. Memon has had first hand knowledge about
American philosophy and hence has deep understanding with the
American politics and ways of domination over leaders of other
countries and real characteristic of CIA and other intelligent
agencies of USA to control leaders and oil reservoirs of the
world.
The book, which, in fact, is a memoirs of an expatriate
Pakistani living in American for over two decades, when posted
in internet edition, like many other peoples, even President
Asif Ali Zardari also came back with his comments: “Shaheed
Mohtarma’s vision for the emancipation of the people across
country, including farmers, industrial workers and
intelligentsia, will be implemented and we will make efforts to
address the problems being faced by the people of Pakistan.”
While having a panoramic view, the title of the book somewhat
suggested that the volume might be of judiciary concerns.
Justice scale being erected on the edge of Pakistani and
American flags might suggest that the relations between the two
countries should be established on equal rights, privileges and
justice. The back title consists on photograph of author and his
brief biography. The manuscript is recommended for those
students and intellectuals who wanted to have more knowledge
about American society and the deep view of interior Sindh
society.
2008:
First Death
Anniversary of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto
27th
December 2008 started as the gloomiest day for many of us who were
associated with Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. It reminded me of the day when
another Sindhi Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was killed by then
Army Junta after kicking him with army boots to death and superficially
hanged him till death though he was already dead.
Till today
no one even from the Pakistan Peoples Party leadership took the pain to
investigate Z.A. Bhutto’s murder and take the culprits to the task who are
still enjoying big retirement benefits and pensions except General Zia who
was taken by God with poetic justice. I would like to see an investigation
as to how and under what law he was sent to gallows when three judges of the
Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted him of the crime he was charged.
In the mean
while two sons of Shaheed Bhutto were also killed in suspicious manner and
no investigation was ever complete. Now after one year of Benazir’s murder
no formal investigation has started. Recent witnesses reveal that there was
a massive conspiracy to conceal the evidence of her murder by then people in
Power. I just wonder how come no one from the Pakistan People’s Party high
command has taken pain to initiate a formal FIR in her murder and issued
statement to start investigation of her atrocious and vicious killing.
There are
several scenarios circulating in the civil society, here are few of those
for contemplation.
1.
She was victim of Al-Qaida as she was more progressive and anti
terrorism supporting so called USA’s international counter terrorism war. If
that was true then why USA has not helped Pakistan to investigate her murder
to take the culprits to the task. In my view this scenario is very weak and
based on false Pakistan army propaganda during General Musharaf’s era. I
don’t think Al-Qaida was ever involved in Benazir’s murder.
2.
Benazir Bhutto in her last days never agreed in a set up with full
amnesty to Musharaf therefore then director ISI ,many neo-nationalists and
anti Benazir establishment leaders decided to eliminate her from the scene
and make a deal with the left over leadership of the Pakistan Peoples party.
In my view, Benazir would have not met the USA goals towards so called war
against terrorism therefore it was in their advantage to eliminate Benazir
from the political scene and negotiate deal with new soft and inexperienced
leadership who would extend many concessions to USA. This is the reason why
Army, MQM and top establishment leaders accepted Zardari as the President of
Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif with a large mandate in Punjab was silenced by Saudi
Arabia who in collaboration with US government brokered the deal. USA never
made any effort to investigate the killing because Pentagon might have
approved BB’s elimination to bring most flexible government to achieve their
targets in the region.
3.
In her last days Benazir made Asif Zardari to go under ground and
he was practically asked not to take part in any political process which
might have provoked him. An anti peoples party element is secretly and
silently spreading rumors within civil society that Zardari in
collaboration with Musharaf executed this plan to eliminate Benazir in
exchange of safe passage for Musharaf and power for Zardari. Many people are
of the opinion that Benazir Bhutto’s brother Murtaza Bhutto was eliminated
by Asif Zardari who thought that his presence will hinder his opportunity to
rise to the power. This might be the reason why a sitting Prime Minister did
not follow up with the murder of her own brother which is the highest degree
of ignorance and lawlessness in the country.
4.
Recently a Supreme Court Justice revealed to me a different
scenario in this regard. According to him during Bhutto’s arranged Islamic
Conference a secret fund was established in Swiss Bank to support Bhutto’s
ambition to acquire nuclear power. This fund was secretly financed by many
Muslim states kept in the name of Late Bhutto who used the funding for
building the first Muslim nuclear bomb. Due to early elimination of Bhutto
from the political scene the left over 4-5 Billion dollars were left over in
the account. This account was subsequently inherited by Benazir Bhutto and
Murtaza Bhutto. According to this Justice, elimination of Murtaza Bhutto
could be because of this inheritance which had risen to about 20 Billion
dollars since then. If this is true the beneficiary of Benazir’s Murder
according to him is Asif Zardari who not only got the control of 20 Billion
Dollars fund as well the Presidency of Pakistan. In short he seems to be
the biggest beneficiary of the murder of Benazir therefore it is very
imperative that he should extend full efforts to find out which forces were
behind the assassination of Benazir to eliminate him as a possible suspect.
According to one psychic who did a reading of
Benazir’s told me a very interesting analysis. She told Benazir that she
could see only one of them (Benazir or Asif Zardari) in active politics. She
advised Benazir to keep Asif away from politics as he was her biggest
political liability and suggested divorce to bring peace in her life.
However Benazir was very adamant to keep her marriage intact due to her
children and wanted Asif to be side lined from politics so that she can be
more successful. In my view let us be honest how many of us even visualized
the current scenario before 27th December 2007. Generally at the
end of the day every one assesses the situation with the fact that who is
the beneficiary of the after myth. At present Asif Zardari being the most
benefactor of the situation, is in a very delicate situation and he must
make efforts to initiate enquiry to find out who was the killer of his wife
otherwise people will always point to him for her elimination.
In my view this was a planned elimination by strong forces of
establishment of Pakistan who knew that they would not achieve the
objectives from Benazir therefore they ordered her killing by agencies and
set the scene for Asif Zardari to accept the after myth of her murder by
accepting the Presidency of Pakistan. No one would have thought of this
scenario which would full fill Asif’s dream. This is the reason that he is
more interested to capture power than investigate who murdered his wife. On
the other hand all people’s party leaders are busy in making their place in
the new set up and have forgotten who was responsible for their fame and
glory. Today most of the PPP politicians if they ran on a non party platform
will forfeit their deposits. I just wonder when these people will rise above
their levels and demand for the full fledge investigation of Benazir’s
Murder.
Manzoor A Memon
706 Wisdom Drive
Deer Park Texas 77536
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