THE EDITOR,
DAILY “DAWN”
Sir,
With deep feelings of sorrow and agony, I beg to brother you once again with these humble submissions;-
It is felt by me that I could not succeed in bringing home to your goodself that the order of my transfer from Faisalabad to Karachi was not an out come of original thinking by the Dawn Management, but a result of conspiracy hatched through group politics by a few Journalists with special reference to Faisalabad Press Club. Therefore, I would once again beg to draw your kind attention towards the following facts: -
As soon as I was posted at Karachi, a certain lobby of police touts, operating as journalists, who were annoyed with me due to fair and independent reporting, and who had been exploiting the public ruthlessly, came in action against me, for the only fault of my continual refusal to join hands with their criminal lobby, who has pushed me in a miserable condition.
A letter sent by me to the Daily “MUSLIM”,
“A press clipping from the Daily “The Muslim”, dated
pointed out that “the heinous crimes like murders, abduction, child lifting
etc. were on the increase in the District
“You are requested to take appropriate action and offer your comments by
Three days prior to the date mentioned above, I was arrested by the Police alongwith three of my associates, and locked in the Kotwali Police Station, on a fake complaint lodged by one Muhammad Rafi Ghori, Special Correspondent of the Daily “Afaq”, in which the stock witnesses against me were Munir Imran, Hafiz Ikram Akhtar, Maqbool Ahmad Lodhi, Qari Adbul Khaliq, (all those persons who claimed themselves to be journalists are currently also actively involved in a vilification campaign launched against me and are trying hard to dub me as a controversial figure in the eyes of the DAWN Management).
It is pertinent to mention here that as per opinion given by the Chief of the Police Legal Branch, a case under section 500 PPC only could be registered on the basis of the said complaint, whereas Section 379 PPC was also arbitrarily added by the SHO to block my bail.
Not only that, the news was got flashed in the media, by Hafiz Ikram Akhtar, and his companions, which interalia said that I alongwith three others was arrested by the police on charge of distributing objectionable material. We were not described “as journalists” in the news dispatches sent by the said lobby giving an impression to readers and general public that it was an ordinary case and the media had nothing to do with it. On top of it I was paraded around with both hands cuffed in busy city streets, as reported in the Daily “Jang” dated
This speaks of the credibility and style of my opponents who are anxious to suggest to the DAWN management that I am a controversial figure, to get the hurdle in their way of exploitation and black mailing, removed.
I was again detained in August. 1983. Inquiry of cause of my detention was got conducted by the then Chief Editor, Ahmad Ali Khan Sahib, through Tariq Zaheen, the then Reporter of the “DAWN” in Lahore Bureau, wherein it was also found that I was victimized by the Faisalabad Administration mainly at the behest of the local Journalists lobby.
In 1996, the then Deputy Commissioner, Faisalabad angered by a DATELINE Faisalabad, (copy attached), about the affairs of Chenab Club, employed a number of tactics for vacation of the DAWN News Office from its present premisis and demolished the office stairs. I was left with no option but to knock the door of the court of law.(Copy of the court order is attached). In that whole scenario too that particular journalist lobby acted as tools in the hands of the Deputy Commissioner. Mentally belonging to the Fabian ilk, I moved neither any resolution nor involved the Press Club nor the
On
The cooked up story of killing the maidservant was found false by a Special Investigation team of the Crimes branch which declared that it was a case of suicide. The investigation team vehemently declared that I had been falsely implicated in the case to ruin my dignity and honour as I had been enjoying excellent reputation among the public. A copy of the investigation report is enclosed.
Background of the said episode was that a report captioned “Police Housing Scam”, was published in the DATELINE FAISALABAD, exposing a big fraud committed by the then DPO Zafar Abbas Lak, who happened to be a son in law of the CHAUDHARIES OF GUJRAT”. On the basis of the said DATELINE FAISALABAD an Inquiry was ordered by the government. The inquiry was conducted by three Senior Police Officers of the Punjab Police who in their report testified the allegations pointed out by me in the said Dateline. All the three police officer were immediately removed from the
The said group till todate has been actively operating against me on the instigation of Zafar Abbas Lak, publishing malicious material and launching vilification campaign. The case of promotion of Zafar Abbas Lak, as DIG Police, was turned down by the Chairman, Public Service Commission, Lt. Gen.(Rtd) Jamshed Kiyani, who specifically referred to the DATELINE FAISALABAD, in all television channels and newspapers. The August Supreme Court of Pakistan also made observation and referred to my Dateline. Copy enclosed.
I am forced to point out that certain journalists who had always acted as touts and flatterers of police officers and had been backbiting against me only to please them, and offering to act as their protectors against me. To be specific Mr. Hafiz Ikram Akhtar who had written number of article against me and sent to the DAWN MANAGEMENT alleging that I was involved in the mission of getting the DPO Faisalabad, Muhammad Amin Wains transferred and in getting some junior police officer posted in his place.
Mr. Ikram Akhtar, also alleged in an article published on
How anxious and keen is the said blackmailer group to see me detach me from the DAWN Faisalabad, can be judged from the fact that they did not miss the slightest opportunity to publicize my detachment from the DAWN Faisalabad. My name was included against my will in a recently constituted reconciliation committee for the Press Club and sent to the DCO.
A news item was carried by my opponents in which my link with DAWN was deliberately omitted while the names of other members were given with designations such as Khalid Abbas Saif, of Business Recorder, Maqbool Lodhi of Frontier Post and Muhammad Yousaf of Khabrain. This is a stark fact which I have unfortunately failed so far to make your goodself believe that certain quarters having vested interests are determined to get me removed from the scene of
I can produce volumes of documents to prove the nefarious designs of the blackmailer type journalists like Hafiz Ikram Akhtar and others who are active against me. But I am only enclosing four news items which merit attention of the DAWN Management to judge the credibility of those slinging mud on me.
Inspite of the massive vilification campaign launched against me, not a single instance of misreporting could be brought out even by my opponents. Therefore, they are trying their utmost to present me as a controversial figure which I am not.
I would request the DAWN Management to ponder that had I joined hands with the said mafia the good name and high standard of the DAWN would have been tarnished.
You would kindly appreciate that free and fair reporting for which I am known would not have been possible had I been involved in the slightest act of corruption. It is a compliment to me and the DAWN that not a single instance of that sort could be pointed out against me by any one out of the seven million population of
I wish to enclose a piece of “LAHORI’S NOTE BOOK” of ZIM Sahib, published in the DAWN on
I would beg your goodself not to kindly feel that I wish to cling to
It would be in all fairness , equity and justice to review my transfer orders. Moreover, there is no other male member except to me look after my family consisting of two young daughters and a wife. Therefore, I would implore for a more merciful response on compassionate grounds.
SHAMSUL ISLAM NAZ
DAWN STAFF CORRESPONDENT,
EMPLOYEE NO.4472,
130-C PEOPLES COLONY NO.1,
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