Reading repeated reports of the prime minister’s wards being involved in different money scams sets one on thinking how times have changed in Pakistan during the past half a century. During my early period of service in the early sixties, I was stationed at a 25 acre Poultry Research Station near the Lahore airport as provincial poultry research officer of West Pakistan. The then Governor’s son Malik Asad was sent by his father Amir Muhammad Khan of Kalabagh for one week’s training at the poultry research station.
He would come in a personal small car and not in an official car and it was learnt that the governor did not permit his sons to even stay in the governor house.
These days one keeps on hearing of news of massive frauds that all connect in one way or another to the prime minister’s house which is very disconcerting.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore