Of
Boards & Committees
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Westridge, Rawalpindi
The News in its 4 December issue reported that
a controversial poem has been deleted from an
inter textbook. The fist letter of each verse
of the poem ‘The Leader’ when conjugated
in sequence spell “George W Bush’,
and the poem eulogises his leadership qualities
rather poetically. To top it all the poet’s
name is not mentioned, which is considered a scholastic
requirement to lend credibility to the literature
included in the textbooks.
An official of the concerned ministry wondered
as to how a number of committees that sift through
all textbooks failed to notice such a glaringly
objectionable material for more than a year.
The answer is very simple. They are just unfit
for the task assigned to them. And, there is no
dearth of such nincompoops holding important posts
in Pakistan.
Har shaakh pay ulloo bhaitha hai anjam-e gulistan
kia hoga?
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