The practice of having camp offices by our President, PM, Governors and CMs is just not understood by the people of Pakistan as they consume a lot of manpower and transport. Our PM who has a palatial PM House in Islamabad is maintaining a number of houses in Lahore and Multan as his camp offices. Same is the case with other high officials. All these houses are manned and heavily guarded by the police of the respective areas. To give an example only the Raiwind residence where the CM of Punjab and his elder brother reside have about 1000 policemen to guard it.
Surprisingly, these VVIPs make it a point to visit these houses at least once a week and one can see the traffic police and the armed policemen lined up for miles to receive and see off these popularly elected leaders. They block the traffic for quite some time till the VVIPs reach their destinations or are well clear of the area. No doubt they need special personal security but they create terrible inconvenience to the general public.
I would request our rulers to have mercy on the nation and leave this royal style of living. Our nation cannot afford it any more.
MUHAMMAD AZHAR KHWAJA
Lahore
