THIS is apropos Khalifa Mohammad Zubair’s letter ‘A leader forgotten’ (Aug 16). Khwaja Nazimuddin was a noble soul. Ghulam Muhammad, who was given the title of ‘Muhafiz‑i‑Millat’ by flatterers who were strutting the national stage at that time, had committed the most atrocious political crime, which was the mother of all the subsequent political crimes in the unfortunate history of Pakistan, when he dismissed the ministry of Khwaja Sahib.

Since then the nation is at the mercy of freebooters. You will indeed do a great service to the nation if you publish a special supplement commemorating the life and achievements of Khwaja Sahib.

I may add that at the time of the dismissal of Khwaja Sahib’s ministry in, perhaps, 1954 or thereabout, I had written an article in which I had quoted a political thinker ‘Dicey’ who had said that ‘if issues are not decided by counting heads, they shall perforce be decided by breaking them’ and had added ‘and perhaps the first head to roll will be that of the governor-general’.

The CID on this ground dubbed me ‘a man of volatile nature. Unfit for government service’. It took me a year to negate the effect of this adverse report when my appointment as a Pakistan Civil Service (judicial branch) officer of 1959 batch came up before the government.

A retired judge

Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 21st, 2017