This afternoon at
rounds at the hospital, the oldest member of our medical staff, Dr.George B.
asked me, "Tell me, how is Pakistan?" I told him that the
country is unwell. My good friend, Dr. S. G. Shah, FRCS had
a one-word diagnosis for Pakistan when I popped the very same
question to him last Monday. “Pakistan is in RIGOR MORTIS,” he said. I was
flabbergasted.
It was Jinnah who said, “God has granted to us the grand
opportunity to build up this nation. Let it not be said that we did not prove
unequal to the TASK.” (These words are engraved on the large
examination/convocation hall at King Edward Medical College where I studied.)
Dr. George B.
continued: “With no electricity nor potable water for the average citizen, let
alone social justice – do you regret having formed Pakistan?"
I will answer that
question in a later post.
