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June 2025
There was a twelve story iconic very big building named Kuwaiti Building in Bahrain. Its ground and first floor had some hundred shops and rest all residential luxury flats. Living in those Flats was a status. It has recently been demolished.
2. The image of this demised building propped up in the mind of this old reading a news item that the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce proposed and all chambers in Pakistan “unanimously” resolved (اس سادگی پہ کون نہ مر جائے اے خدا ) that the Federal Tax Ombudsman be given a “re-tenure”.
3. It is not new in our history. Once one fine morning, people of Lahore and Rawalpindi on waking up in the morning, found their city full of banners having been sprung up within night demanding “extension” for someone.
4. Quorum in our assemblies is a growing chronic problem. Only on special occasions like, e.g on move raising salaries and perks for the parliamentarians attendance both of treasury and opposition is with no surprise always cent percent. Both treasury and opposition cent percent was in attendance when just in three minute without a word of debate the then Sindh Ombudsman Ashraf Malik was given a re-tenure on the ground if he left the seat, Sindh would be ruined.
5. The front of the above quoted demised building was on the main road. Back of its was on another road in front of which is a very big mosque attached with a huge graveyard known famously as Kuwaiti Building Graveyard. All expenses and arrangements for burial whatsoever are born by a Bahraini businessman family. In six seven decades it till now is half occupied with systematic graves, broad pavements and very comfortable benches all over with sunshine covers within the graveyard. It will take yet another 25-30 years to be fully occupied.
6. In 1980s Altaf Gouhar came Bahrain for a Conference. He stayed with some friend in a back side Flat in this building. Till then mobile had not come, tiny “pager” was in use. Altaf Gohur in the Conference observed that every five minute this one went out, next five minute the other one and after half an hour again the first one. Every minute there was a sound of bleep of pagers when almost every one repeatedly went out to respond to the pager emergency calls. In the evening, standing in the balcony stretching his eyes to far fetched graves. Altaf thought that all those today deep sleeping here were once all “inseparable important ones” similar to the ones responding every five minute pager call.
7. Reading the news recollected the name of Peshawar which this old unfortunately has not visited. Memories further re-flashed that in 1980s this city lacked infrastructure and facilities infrastructure for print media. Yet there was an English daily “The Frontier Post” which created a history by writing an editorial disagreeing, on principle stand, to the move for an extension to the then Federal Ombudsman Mr. Justice Sardar Iqbal though, at that time, that extension move was somewhat justifiable since Mr. Justice Sardar Iqbal, remaining so far unmatched for ombudsman, had founded and was still cementing the foundations of the newly established system.
8. The said, comparatively a small English Daily of Peshawar and its great Editor with “Afridi soul” fetched contempt notice for this judicious and honest to the conscious stand. But due to the principle stand from this small city, the ugly desire could not get matured.
9. The news item further reads that the Tax Ombudsman received 16,000 complaints from the tax payers which target has now been fixed to receive 40,000 complaints. “کچھ نہ سمجھے خدا کرے کوئی, ؟ سمجھے کیا”
10. Preamble and general universal concept about an Ombudsman is that he/she would “diagnose, rectify and put the derailed system back on track”. In simple word an ombudsman is not for providing individual relief but to ponder as to why a citizen became aggrieved and met with an injustice and an act of mal-administration. The ombudsman, then, reprimands the erring functionary, cautions him to be careful in future ensuring the injustice in the same manner does not happen to anyone else. As such this too old fool holding Matric Pass “Degree” from Fees-free Municipality School can’t understand if the number of complaints to the Ombudsman should yearly had gradually lowering down but on the contrary this number is yearly increasing? Perhaps this is why extension is necessary? Early last month our dailies shocked the serious citizens that complaints to the Federal Tax Ombudsman during past few months had surged by 550%.
Regards.
June 2025
There was a twelve story iconic very big building named Kuwaiti Building in Bahrain. Its ground and first floor had some hundred shops and rest all residential luxury flats. Living in those Flats was a status. It has recently been demolished.
2. The image of this demised building propped up in the mind of this old reading a news item that the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce proposed and all chambers in Pakistan “unanimously” resolved (اس سادگی پہ کون نہ مر جائے اے خدا ) that the Federal Tax Ombudsman be given a “re-tenure”.
3. It is not new in our history. Once one fine morning, people of Lahore and Rawalpindi on waking up in the morning, found their city full of banners having been sprung up within night demanding “extension” for someone.
4. Quorum in our assemblies is a growing chronic problem. Only on special occasions like, e.g on move raising salaries and perks for the parliamentarians attendance both of treasury and opposition is with no surprise always cent percent. Both treasury and opposition cent percent was in attendance when just in three minute without a word of debate the then Sindh Ombudsman Ashraf Malik was given a re-tenure on the ground if he left the seat, Sindh would be ruined.
5. The front of the above quoted demised building was on the main road. Back of its was on another road in front of which is a very big mosque attached with a huge graveyard known famously as Kuwaiti Building Graveyard. All expenses and arrangements for burial whatsoever are born by a Bahraini businessman family. In six seven decades it till now is half occupied with systematic graves, broad pavements and very comfortable benches all over with sunshine covers within the graveyard. It will take yet another 25-30 years to be fully occupied.
6. In 1980s Altaf Gouhar came Bahrain for a Conference. He stayed with some friend in a back side Flat in this building. Till then mobile had not come, tiny “pager” was in use. Altaf Gohur in the Conference observed that every five minute this one went out, next five minute the other one and after half an hour again the first one. Every minute there was a sound of bleep of pagers when almost every one repeatedly went out to respond to the pager emergency calls. In the evening, standing in the balcony stretching his eyes to far fetched graves. Altaf thought that all those today deep sleeping here were once all “inseparable important ones” similar to the ones responding every five minute pager call.
7. Reading the news recollected the name of Peshawar which this old unfortunately has not visited. Memories further re-flashed that in 1980s this city lacked infrastructure and facilities infrastructure for print media. Yet there was an English daily “The Frontier Post” which created a history by writing an editorial disagreeing, on principle stand, to the move for an extension to the then Federal Ombudsman Mr. Justice Sardar Iqbal though, at that time, that extension move was somewhat justifiable since Mr. Justice Sardar Iqbal, remaining so far unmatched for ombudsman, had founded and was still cementing the foundations of the newly established system.
8. The said, comparatively a small English Daily of Peshawar and its great Editor with “Afridi soul” fetched contempt notice for this judicious and honest to the conscious stand. But due to the principle stand from this small city, the ugly desire could not get matured.
9. The news item further reads that the Tax Ombudsman received 16,000 complaints from the tax payers which target has now been fixed to receive 40,000 complaints. “کچھ نہ سمجھے خدا کرے کوئی, ؟ سمجھے کیا”
10. Preamble and general universal concept about an Ombudsman is that he/she would “diagnose, rectify and put the derailed system back on track”. In simple word an ombudsman is not for providing individual relief but to ponder as to why a citizen became aggrieved and met with an injustice and an act of mal-administration. The ombudsman, then, reprimands the erring functionary, cautions him to be careful in future ensuring the injustice in the same manner does not happen to anyone else. As such this too old fool holding Matric Pass “Degree” from Fees-free Municipality School can’t understand if the number of complaints to the Ombudsman should yearly had gradually lowering down but on the contrary this number is yearly increasing? Perhaps this is why extension is necessary? Early last month our dailies shocked the serious citizens that complaints to the Federal Tax Ombudsman during past few months had surged by 550%.
Regards.
