Col. Ikram’s Death

It was a most unfortunate and tragic incident to happen. The late Colonel’s brother sobbing with tears on the TV accused the Chief Secretary that had he stopped and taken his brother to a hospital probably he would have not died. Not many may give a thought as to why did the Secretary not stop. Was he that callous that he saw a  man being hit  and yet sped away? Was he a ‘hit & run’ type of juvenile car user? Was there some bigger emergency for him to attend to? None of these, Sir, it was simply due to the mindset of a typical naukri baz  officerwho behaves like a lion before the public and acts like the most meek and humble lamb before his  superiors. And, the Prime Minister is one hell of lot superior officer. Who cares if an ordinary man on the road is killed ?!, the mighty mu st show up his humble presence to the mightier come what may. The curse of this kind of sycophancy has crept into the services also. Some time back I was dumbstruck to see a fidgeting  Major General mind you a Major General asking his P.A. unashamedly and that too in my presence, “Oh dekho marwa na dena, check up again if the Chief has really cancelled his visit to the Golf Course”. It was about 1:00 p.m. and the General was in uniform. But in spite of the office hours he wanted to present himself  at the Golf Course and that too in uniform at the championship prize distribution ceremony which the Chief had to perform. Shame on such generals.

Truly

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)

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