MR Tawana, himself a pilot and a retired group captain, if my memory serves me well, has paid rich and well-deserved tribute to retired/deceased Christian officers of the PAF, mostly pilots (July 29).

I personally know another Christian officer, a doctor, who displayed great courage at the risk of his career by telling the truth when most of the witnesses were economical with the truth. This happened at the infamous Badaber trial of PAF officers by a general court martial, a counter-part of an equally infamous Attock trial. Group Cap Zuzart, senior medical officer of the air base, was produced by the prosecution and was supposed to say that he daily visited the accused during their incarceration and noticed that they were looked after very well.

But this courageous doctor refused to toe the doctored line of the prosecution and told the truth that they were badly treated. This created a hush in the courtroom, created a serious flaw in the prosecution case and contributed to some extent to the ultimate acquittal of a great majority of falsely- implicated accused persons. Who would know this incident better than me as I was the judge advocate at the trial and recorded the statement of this honest and courageous doctor.

GROUP CAPT (Retd) S. M. ANWAR Karachi