osman riaz February 6, 2003
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A call for justice
Javed Burki, served his country as a Cricket Captain and a bureaucrat, is now languishing in jail when his countrymen should be lavishing allocades on him. The noble NAB hath told you that Burki bungled state funds:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And
grievously hath Burki answer’d it.
Here, under leave of the General and the rest,-
For the General is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men
Come I to speak in Burki’s favor.
He was honest, straight forward and just :
But the Generals men says he was corrupt;
And the General is a honourable man.
He hath brought projects to Pakistan,
tried to save our country’s coffer by staring an indigenous truck manufacturing programme:
Did this in Burki seem corrupt?
Yet the Generals men says he is corrupt;
And the General is an honourable man.
He even walked/cycled to office because he had no car- was this corruption?
Yet the Generals men say he was corrupt;
And, sure, the General is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove NAB charges,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once,- not without cause:
What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason!-bear with me:
My heart is in this prison with Burki,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Mr Javed Burki was arrested on Dec, 19 2002 from his residence in Islamabad and taken to Karachi Jail, where he has been awaiting trial. The slow judicial process in our country and the Government has succeeded in acute character assassination and putting
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And
Here, under leave of the General and the rest,-
For the General is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men
Come I to speak in Burki’s favor.
He was honest, straight forward and just :
But the Generals men says he was corrupt;
And the General is a honourable man.
He hath brought projects to Pakistan,
tried to save our country’s coffer by staring an indigenous truck manufacturing programme:
Did this in Burki seem corrupt?
Yet the Generals men says he is corrupt;
And the General is an honourable man.
He even walked/cycled to office because he had no car- was this corruption?
Yet the Generals men say he was corrupt;
And, sure, the General is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove NAB charges,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once,- not without cause:
What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason!-bear with me:
My heart is in this prison with Burki,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
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