Appeal for
Help
By Robina Akbar
Princeton, New Jersey
I appeal to the president,
the prime minister, the Punjab chief minister
and the PML-Q president to personally intervene
and oversee an effort to recover my family’s
life savings amounting to over one-third of a
million dollars from those who stole it and the
elements in the government who are protecting
them.
I had been in Pakistan for two years, away from
my family, tirelessly pursuing these people, meeting
and writing to everyone who is anyone, but to
no avail.
Top officials have consistently protected the
usurpers of my children’s money to the extent
that even inquiries from the FBI and Interpol,
Washington, DC, go unanswered.
Your gatekeepers have kept my repeated appeals
from your eyes because I know had you actually
seen them, you would have acted as you are men
of action and conscience.
Three years have passed since my family’s
money was stolen and we continue to suffer immensely.
That money represented 25 years’ worth of
hard work and sacrifice in the United States.
President Musharraf spoke to American investors
while in the United States telling them that their
investments in Pakistan were 100 per cent safe
and guaranteed. I plead with you to make good
on that promise.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah once said: “All men
are equal in the eyes of God.
And your lives and your properties are all sacred;
in no case should you attack each other’s
life and property.”
Let my ordeal serve as a reminder that the Quaid-i-Azam’s
vision has not been fulfilled in letter or in
spirit, nor have those bureaucrats who help run
Pakistan lived up to the responsibility placed
upon them by Pakistan’s founder.
I urge you all, please help.
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