Thread by @KamranShafi46

Chief, this disgrace is far older. 1) In 1971 when posted in the Infantry School, we had a lady cook from Wah. My batman, the good No. 2436392 L/Nk Azam Ali, God rest him, used to eat in the house and draw his Ration Money for himself. The cook went on leave and we asked the 2/

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2/ Cleaning Lady, a Christian, to fill in for her. So, I come home for lunch and Azam Ali says to me, 'Saab, mein iss ki bani roti nahin kha sakta'. I said that was quite alright, gave him 10 Rupees and asked him to eat his lunch and dinner at the Chiltan Market bang opposite 3/

3/ our hut, and report to the Langar for breakfast the next day when I would inform the Quartermaster to add him to the Langar roster and cancel his Ration Money payment. Azam ate at the Langar for a week, said sorry and started eating at the house, food cooked by Maryam Bibi! 4/

4/ 3) In 1983 when I still had the Farm in Shiekhupura, and was supervising wheat planting one day, a chap walking along the path through my land leading onto the next village stopped at the hookah lying near the path and asked, 'Ae hookah peen allay'? I did not understand what5/

5/ he meant so asked one of my chaps? 'He is asking if this hookah belongs to a Muslim' I was told. I said, ' Baba, ae pind Issayian dae, hookah peenay tae pee lay nahin tae ja'. He quietly sat down had a couple of drags and went on his way. 3) There is a custom among farmers 6/

6/ to ask for help from neighbours when the planting/reaping season is fast closing in and work has to be done rapidly, called 'Vangaar'. So, it happened once that due to unseasonal rains, my sugar-cane crop had to be planted very quickly. So I sent out a request and 20 people 7/

7/ turned up. It is custom that the host provide a deg of Pulao and a deg of meethay chawal to the helpers. So, at lunchtime they were all sitting in a circle around the degs eating lunch and I noticed 'Mehnga', my Baba Qadir's handsome son who was sitting apart not eating. I 8/

8/ asked why, and my Munshi, Ramzan, God rest him, said Mehnga's younger brother had gone to get his plate so he could eat! I went into my pantry and got one of my plates and served him. I then laid into the others who had shunned him and said words to the effect that all of 9/

9/ them had come to have tea/eat with me off the plates which they KNEW were also used by my WHITE Christian friends: Germans, Brits, Americans who used to come upon a weekend to the farm often for overnight stays! Was it because they were 'Sahibs' and Mehnga was Mehnga? 10/

10/ Pin drop silence!!!! We've been screwed up for a very long time. MUCH Shame on us!!