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.

