Daily Times

Honourable Provincial Chief Executive, The ensuing letter is written with a solemn and firm conviction to explicate the sanctity of the moral pedestal that you have attained and to apprise the general masses at large of the services you have dispensed and the sacrificial contributions you have made for the social welfare, societal betterment and institutional reorganisation of our society. It is an onus upon those in the loop of your endeavours to further disseminate the saga of your achievements to ensure their shelter from divine anathema for the crime of its concealment.

The dispensation of justice, the uplift of the downtrodden, and the alleviation of poverty have been the cornerstone of your political campaign. Soon after you assumed the helm of chief ministership, you reinforced your commitment on the floor of the house to avail yourself of every opportunity to act up to your vows. Those around you on their seats and the ones glued to their television sets felt a surge of excitement after having listened to your speech. You generated a spine-chilling wave of gusto in an auspiciously powerful oration. A strong sense of trustworthiness ran through the veins of your words.

To this end, you strained every nerve from the onset and appointed hand-picked civil servants and endowed them with perks, privileges and unwarranted authority. They were provided with the licence to liberally manipulate, slyly manoeuvre, and advertently hamstring the local civil administration at will and whim to peddle for a greater sway over the resources. Funds were criminally tapped into, resources were brutally abused, illegal inductions were carried out at industrial scale and financial largesse was distributed amongst the cronies with impunity at your behest. By pressing into use your political go-ahead, these civil servants showcased their exceptional calibre in siphoning off the money by bypassing all the auditory filters. Industrious, painstaking, and assiduous bureaucrats were either upstaged or were incapacitated of their legal right to undertake any meaningful enterprise. They were vilified, ridiculed, and disempowered only with an intent to further strengthen the organisational sinew of our civil administrative skeleton.

The spree of showering the financial blessings did not restrict itself to the civil servants, the political elite and the government contractors were also collaborating in unison in their pious effort to loot, plunder, and embezzle without scruples. An outstanding display of camaraderie, collusion, connivance was exhibited, and an insurmountable bar of the exceptionally brilliant record for systemic mismanagement, malfunction, and malpractice was maintained by these contenders. You did not shrink away from ennobling yourself as the spearhead of this crusade for the aggrandisement of personal assets and the proliferation of personal belongings. Your commitment to remain unequivocal and unambiguous in your speeches is reflected in your admission of these achievements.

Under your direct supervision, the fragile infrastructure of Gilgit-Baltistan languishing in shambles and mired in dilapidation is transformed into a cutting-edge network of artistic sophistication. A wide web of transportation-facilitating metallic roads is spread across the length and breadth of the region with colossal flyovers and titanic off-ground bridges straddling the skyline of skyscrapers. Each lap of the metallic road is interspersed by a government-administered tax-free advisory cell dedicated to catering to traffic education and a horse-reliant postal service. This unique model was conceived and materialised into execution under your auspices. The Korean Committee for quality transportation in the Republic of Korea and the Zimbabwean Committee for serviceable highway-mapping in the Republic of Zimbabwe in acknowledgement of this project dispatched their teams of experts to study, investigate, and adopt the formula at play in the formulation of this model.

In addition, innovative proposals reflective of intellectual ingenuity have already been conceived by your perspicacious coterie to generate electricity by grinding the boulders littered across the region, to purge the sea-water of adulteration by diverting its course of flow towards Russia, and to get connected with wider global community through telepathy by invoking shamanic powers in lieu of internet. A vast swath of land has been earmarked with a vision to establish a state-of-the-art workshop in pursuance of launching a home-manufactured satellite for the exploration of space. The project entails a multi-layered process ranging from the indigenous systematisation of space technology to the consignment of a robot-carrying satellite across a multitude of galaxies. Of late, concerted efforts have been undertaken to store the light of stars for the generation of electricity to meet industrial consumption.

In toto, the afore-mentioned series of achievements merely amounts to an infinitesimal mass of speck against your accolades, and a writer notorious for his lack of lexical acquaintance and a letter characterized by the brevity of its content, can not stand up to enumerate the string of accomplishments carried off in your brief stint of benison-endowed incumbency.

Honestly Yours, A Passionate Truth-Teller

The writer is a prospective candidate for the PhD program at NYU