By: Dr. Maqsood Jafri
Who is Who?
Eminent journalist Ms. Rehana Shabbir had written a column on our National hero, Dr. Abdul Qaudeer Khan in a daily Urdu News paper of Lahore. your column depicts her patriotic spirit and commitment to Pakistan. Dr. Abdul Qaudeer Khan was a great patriot and Savior of Pakistan. She has cursed and criticized the military dictator General Pervaiz Musharraf for disgracing out National hero. He remained house arrest for many years. She writes that General Pervaiz Musharraf was a stooge of Imperialists who left no stone unturned to belittle and tease our national hero. Such undemocratic and illegal rulers have totally tarnished our national pride and have made us international beggars. I endorse her stance against the military dictator who illegally ruled over Pakistan with blind and brute force. He even brought bad name to army and sever the alien agenda. In my book of English columns titled “Moderate Meditations”, there is an article on the great national services of this scientist. I have mailed him this book. On reading that article , he called me and thanked me for expressing my feelings about his National services. Besides, being a nuclear scientist, who made atom bomb as a deterrent from Alien aggression, he was a poet and a columnist. He wrote English columns in daily The News and Urdu columns in daily The Jang. He kindly mailed me a book of his favorite Urdu poetry titled نوادرات which was published in Karachi. He gave his excellent opinion about my poetry which is published in my book titled روزنِ دیوارِ زنداں . Once he called me and expressed his wish to visit me. He asked me to arrange a poetry session ( مشاعرہ) at my residence in which he desired to participate and read his poetry. I agreed but later because of his ill health, the program was dropped. There were restrictions on his free movement. Might be this was the reason, he was not permitted to participate. So many writers have commented on this national plight and are still expressing their severe wrath against government agencies and establishment. Are we still slaves? Are we agents of the Imperialists? When patriots are branded as security risk and traitors and the traitors are ruling and are regarded patriots, then what is the future of this nation?
