This is another in a long line of publications that stands to the name of A B S Jafri. He has written books, tracts, pamphlets on a variety of subjects ranging from serious politics to light essays, to sharp criticism, to travelogue. He has also written competently on sports, notably cricket and tennis. He has been a cricket commentator for the print media as well as radio. He has also worked for the Reuter news agency and the BBC.
Jafri ranks among senior jounalists, He started his career as a reporter for a news agency in New Delhi in June 1947, August 7 that year saw him in Karachi, on temporary assignment to cover the inauguration of the new country. But, as it turned out, there was no going back. Two years later, he was assigned to New Delhi. This time as a Pakistani foreign correspondent in the Indian Capital Idcidentally, that also gave ABS the distinction of being Pakistan's first journalist to proceed on a foreign assignment.
It was as an assistant editor on the staff of The Pakstan Times, which he joined in 1958, that ABS found scope for his versatile gifts. For The Pakistan Times, he contributed as reporter, correspondent, critic, reviewer, editorial writer. Before long he was to take over as editor of the paper's edition in the capital.
The advent of the Zia dictatorship was not to his taste. He felt obliged to leave the country. After some wandering he accepted an offer to be the Managing Editor of the Kuwait Times, the oldest Eglish language newspaper in the Arab world. For nearly a decade he edited that newspaper, waiting all the time to return home. A C-130 air crach outside the city of Bahawalpur (August 17, 1988) paved his way back home.
After editing The Muslim, Islamabad, for over two years, some differences on policy led to a break in that association. After brief stint at The Pakistan Observer, islamabad he shifted to Karachi. He is now editor of The Finance daily, Karachi and frequently contributing articles to Dawn, The Nation, The Herald and some foreign Journals.
Jafri's personal friends, and those who are acquainted with him through his writings, know that he is a non- non-sense journalist, fiercely independent and unforgivingly outspoken. Fear is alien to his chemistry. He insists that freedom of expression is too gragile to survive the smallest compromise and too strong for dictators' flats to subdue. He doesn't believe any price is too much to pay for this freedom.
In this book, as the name suggests clearly enough, he laments the betrayal of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah by the nation and the state he created. He looks at the various aspects of life as it is in today's Pakistan. The country's political life is without any definable basis in principle or concept in political ethics or phiolsophy. Since 1958 to this day, no government came into office in accordance with written fundamental law of the day, nor any government was replaced according to existing constitution.
Public adminsitration and services are notoriously corrupt, intefficient and unreliable. Social services and utilities are in various stages of decay. All this adds up to a shattering betrayal of the founder. This gross betrayal is written all over the face of this country and its nearly 140 million who are witness to this shocking phase of Pakistan's history.
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