Sir: There is something very wrong in our set-up. In any other country, when a charge is levied against a close relative of a highly important person like the son of the prime minister or a politically controversial case is instituted against important functionaries of the government, like an ambassador, the bodies framing these charges are extra careful that their evidence is foolproof and will stand up in any forum and not be based on mere accusations and assertions that cannot be verified properly. But in our country we seem to have scant respect for our elected leaders and their policies. Thus, we have important and supposedly responsible officers rushing with incomplete dossiers to accuse certain politically very significant people. This is actually a continuation of the Ziaul Haq syndrome. His main thrusts were first to propagate an extremist form of an Islamic state and secondly to extirpate the PPP. After his demise, the second policy continued with rigged elections, vilification campaigns, etc, and we have had confessions by various ex-army officers of outrageous conspiracies and now there is the Mehrangate case. The fact is that there is a body of prejudiced people who still believe they have to rid this country of the PPP. Theirs is not an opposition merely against the policies of the government nor, as is sometimes the case in other countries, of hatred of one political party for another, like two opposing teams who despite antipathy recognise their adversaries and stick to the rules of the game. This body of people refuse to acknowledge any right whatsoever or observe proper decorum due to an elected party and its leaders. It will go to any extent to blackguard and to try to destroy it (vainly, even after 34 years), even at the cost of propagating friction between the institutions, destroying the nation and opening the floodgates of militant insurgency. IMRAN KURESHI Karachi