A Man who left an Un-Erasable impression on my Style

Pakistan can't produce a Jouranalist, Columnist, Book Writer & most of all - a Master of Wit & Satire - of His Calibre - ANY MORE (Hey visitor - I want U to read his "Long Pieces" at your ease. I was in COMMUNICATION (exchange of e-mails - calling me Meer sahib) with him days before he embraced a graceful death... fighting cancer like our mother. I knew him when he was Press Advisor of ZAB. (May ALLAH bless his soul and grant him Jannat al FIRDOUS - people like him deserve it for all they wrote and how many people enjoyed and for how many people - he was a beacon light for smooth sailing of LIFE ship.) Read him all - including his columns in TFT & DT---hundreds if not thousands)

here is the one of the exchange I was referring above;

--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Mohsin Meer wrote:

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From: Mohsin Meer



Subject: Re: Letter to the Editor



To: "Khalid Hasan"



Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 2:06 PM




Dear Khalid Sahib,




I feel very honored receiving your response. I agree that Musharraf will not quit may be until his share of 'mangoes will not explode'. As far as Zardari and his team's performance is concerned it is not different from any past government. The whole system is not only in a standstill but fast decaying. The confusion on who calls the shots and whose court the ball is in heightening people's frustration and disappointment. How worse the the situation will fall further and when and how things will improve depend on how sooner the nation finds a common goal and agenda under a unanimous leadership? Otherwise, the fiasco and chaos will continue. People should not complain as they are the ones who welcome a General and elect these politicians from whom they are disappointed in first 100 days. Next time they should support and elect someone who can really deliver. Until then pay for the wrong decision. (almost every time)




Thanks again for sparing time to reply. Take good care of yourself. No need to tell that I am very fond of your writings in Daily Times and Friday Times. May ALLAH give you more strength so your readers continue to cherish your beautiful style and insight on subject you chose to write.




Best Regards,




Mohsin Meer




--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Khalid Hasan wrote:




From: Khalid Hasan



Subject: Re: Letter to the Editor



To: mohsin_meer@yahoo.com



Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 2:01 AM




My dear Meer Sahib,




What makes you think Gen. Musharraf will pay any attention to what is printed in a newspaper?



I find that it is Asif Ali Zardari and the new civilian government that people feel is not coming up to their expectation. Gen. Musharraf should go, I agree, but he is not the one who is calling the shots any longer. The ball (in case anyone is looking for it) is in some other court, not his.




Khalid Hasan




----- Original Message -----



From: Mohsin Meer



To: khasan2@cox.net



Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 12:23 AM



Subject: Fw: Letter to the Editor




Dear Khalid Hasan Sahib - Sir kaisay hain?




I sent the following as a suggestion to bring this country out of present chaos. Can you pursuade in your column to ask Mr. Musharraf to go on an extended Leave (vacation) if he still believes his quitting will harm the country more than his presence eventhough a latest survey shows 86% of pakistanis believe he should quit. As our leaders become deaf when they are in power, he will not do that. However, he can be pursuaded to go on an eight months (one month for each year in power) and resign if things really improve in his absence and comeback if 51% of Pakistanis in future surveys support his return. This overseas vacation should be fully expensed by public exchequer like all his previous foreign trips.




I believe this is the only peaceful and win-win proposal to get out of the present no-where go situation.




Best Regards,




Mohsin Meer