Published in The News on November 2, 1995
Those who matter in this country cannot tolerate anyone else achieving popularity. We all know how Imran Khan has been made into a non-person, simply because they think he has the potential of becoming a popular public leader. Now, it's the turn of two dedicated individuals in Karachi, the two who have made CPLC an effective organisation, perhaps the only one untainted by corruption.
These two men of God (Nazim Haji and Jameel Yousuf) have risked their own lives as well as those of their families to bring relief to suffering people. While others of their kind were merrily making their fortunes, these two were in danger of losing whatever they had.
However, I doubt if the decision to remove them will ever be reversed. Someone has decreed that they should go, someone whom they have perhaps offended, someone in Islamabad with friends who have nothing to do and need lucrative jobs. Their only fault is that, while they were serving the people, they did not lick the boots of their masters.
We do not deserve to have these saints in our midst. This ungrateful nation would have hounded the Quaid-e-Azam out of office, if he had lived any longer. They should go and serve suffering humanity in some other country where their services will be recognized, where people do not pay lip service to Islam but practise it in the real sense
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
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