Being a Pakistani, three news items appearing on 27 May have made me hang my head in shame although it has become a routine affair.
1. A lady lecturer was detained for the whole night in a lock up with the connivance of military police and the concerned SHO and without any registration of an FIR. Since she indulged in a minor traffic argument with a serving army Major, who instead of showing respect to the lady, preferred to indulge in high-handedness.
Will the corps commander of Rawalpindi take notice of this conduct unbecoming of army officers?
2. The prime minister has unilaterally increased the housing allowance of all employees of Aiwan-e-Sadar and prime minister secretariat.
Are they his personal employees and paid out from his personal pocket? How could he increase this allowance when the budget for 2011-12 is still to be tabled in the assembly?
3. Education and health sectors are going to get even lesser share in the budget of 2011-12. Have we surpassed literacy rate over 90 percent and the population is healthy, wealthy and fine?
It seems that conduct unbecoming has become the second nature of our rulers.
SALMAN BABAR
Lahore
