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July 22, 2016
A news items has appeared and the Federal Ombudsman office, as usual, has placed its prized-press cutting on its web site. The news reads how a meeting was held in the Federal Ombudsman Secretariat as a follow up to see the implementation progress on a recommendatory report prepared by a special committee. The Director General, National Savings informed the meeting a special scheme for the Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) was being chalked out. Such rosy big mouth announcements from our rulers and National Savings since more than two decades are floated only for file purpose. National Savings has no interest whatsoever with the OPs. The organization which can’t extend just a very small gesture viz treat OPs returning home permanently after long service attaining age of 60 as “pensioners” entitled for joining pensioners accounts what else can in practical term be expected from it. Opening of a Bank Account by an OP through post mail had always been normal feature in the past. Today no OP can open his Bank Account unless he was personally present in Pakistan and that too if he had brought with him a proof of his earnings abroad. This has been done for obvious reasons not an issue here.
Some 25 years back I and my wife opened accounts with National Savings, Civic Center, Islamabad. February 2016 we requested these accounts to be transferred to Karachi. Today July 2016 has started its journey to end but accounts still are unattended to. This is a practical naked self speaking proof how much the organization including the Federal Ombudsman organization has, in practice, practical care for OPs. An ex Pakistani ambassador who writes both locally and internationally for his livelihood, recently wrote that Babeys are appointed as advisors and senior advisors in the ombudsman secretariat. According to the ex-ambassador mostly in such age one loses true capability of handling intricate nature of jobs. About non availability of account transfer forms when I approached the Federal Ombudsman, one such senior advisor advised me to appear before her in Karachi in a Hearing (in simple words a prescription of about Rs. 2 lacs from Dr. Free Justice at Door Step to get a free of cost account opening form – and perhaps it was because this English of this free municipality school educated senior citizen was so wrong hence was summoned to explain personally in Karachi what the complaint was).
About meetings, in Arab region there is a very famous Persian phrase “amadand, gufftand aur barhastand” meaning they came, talked (over coffee) and disbursed.
Due to age fact this senior citizen today can’t recall the reference but remembers exactly once an OP wrote to a Daily about inattention from a Department. The OP with his letter sent a Rs. 10 currency note requesting to be given to the concerned officer for the efficiency. The Editor of the Daily concerned was not other than the most senior journalist and intellectual late Irshad Ahmed Haqqani. He not only wrote a column on that but forward that Rs. 10/- to the Head of same Department.
This senior citizen wishes to award Rs. 999 for his good governance to His Excellency the Officer Incharge, NS Civic Center, Islamabad and Rs. 499 to the Regional Director, NS Rawalpindi/Islamabad for his so much controlling and monitoring performance. However, unfortunately, there is no Haqqani today.
A news items has appeared and the Federal Ombudsman office, as usual, has placed its prized-press cutting on its web site. The news reads how a meeting was held in the Federal Ombudsman Secretariat as a follow up to see the implementation progress on a recommendatory report prepared by a special committee. The Director General, National Savings informed the meeting a special scheme for the Overseas Pakistanis (OPs) was being chalked out. Such rosy big mouth announcements from our rulers and National Savings since more than two decades are floated only for file purpose. National Savings has no interest whatsoever with the OPs. The organization which can’t extend just a very small gesture viz treat OPs returning home permanently after long service attaining age of 60 as “pensioners” entitled for joining pensioners accounts what else can in practical term be expected from it. Opening of a Bank Account by an OP through post mail had always been normal feature in the past. Today no OP can open his Bank Account unless he was personally present in Pakistan and that too if he had brought with him a proof of his earnings abroad. This has been done for obvious reasons not an issue here.
Some 25 years back I and my wife opened accounts with National Savings, Civic Center, Islamabad. February 2016 we requested these accounts to be transferred to Karachi. Today July 2016 has started its journey to end but accounts still are unattended to. This is a practical naked self speaking proof how much the organization including the Federal Ombudsman organization has, in practice, practical care for OPs. An ex Pakistani ambassador who writes both locally and internationally for his livelihood, recently wrote that Babeys are appointed as advisors and senior advisors in the ombudsman secretariat. According to the ex-ambassador mostly in such age one loses true capability of handling intricate nature of jobs. About non availability of account transfer forms when I approached the Federal Ombudsman, one such senior advisor advised me to appear before her in Karachi in a Hearing (in simple words a prescription of about Rs. 2 lacs from Dr. Free Justice at Door Step to get a free of cost account opening form – and perhaps it was because this English of this free municipality school educated senior citizen was so wrong hence was summoned to explain personally in Karachi what the complaint was).
About meetings, in Arab region there is a very famous Persian phrase “amadand, gufftand aur barhastand” meaning they came, talked (over coffee) and disbursed.
Due to age fact this senior citizen today can’t recall the reference but remembers exactly once an OP wrote to a Daily about inattention from a Department. The OP with his letter sent a Rs. 10 currency note requesting to be given to the concerned officer for the efficiency. The Editor of the Daily concerned was not other than the most senior journalist and intellectual late Irshad Ahmed Haqqani. He not only wrote a column on that but forward that Rs. 10/- to the Head of same Department.
This senior citizen wishes to award Rs. 999 for his good governance to His Excellency the Officer Incharge, NS Civic Center, Islamabad and Rs. 499 to the Regional Director, NS Rawalpindi/Islamabad for his so much controlling and monitoring performance. However, unfortunately, there is no Haqqani today.