Dear Muhammad Ahsan Khan Sahib 

Your last letter leaves the impression that you have completely misunderstood me. I’ve been saying to Rafi Sahib the same thing. After my several letters, this misunderstanding remains. I wonder why? Like J I Chaudry Sahib, with whom I rarely agree, I will make one more attempt. After that I’d like to close the subject.  

In-spite of my several pleadings, why both of you gentlemen insist upon addressing ONLY a very small part of my post, and not the whole post, is beyond me. I know that in the certain special interest organizations in the western and other media, for political reasons, such tactics are deliberately used to frustrate the other parties, but I’m sure such is not the intention here. Then what is it? Could this be my fear that even few of us do not have the capacity to understand each others?  

I’m requesting that you please read my posts again, and read the end parts where I made suggestions, bullet marked and just above the bullet marks. Then decide what you read in those posts? Hopefully you will find in those posts that I resent army rule. I want ordinary Pakistanis to govern Pakistan. But for now I’m suggesting that during Musharraf tenure we have the opportunity to plant the tree that you said it has not been planted yet. May be its only a dream, a false hope, I don’t know.  

I apologize to you for not elaborating my Farmers A, B and C model. As you interpreted, I do not have farmer D in the model. 

Farm is Pakistan. Farmer C is Pakistanis. Farmer A is Musharraf [not the army] and Farmer B is the so called elected politicians all lumped as one.  

The farmer C certainly do not want the Farmer B, who will rob, and burn the farm and finish it off for ever.  The farmer A will also rob, but will not burn the farm.  

For future, Farmer C still has the time and the land to prevent the likes of A and B, even during the time when A is active in its farm. It can build the infrastructure to prevent future robberies. Farmer C has no future options while B is active. 

One more thing Khan Sahib. I think discussions should be for mutual learning and positive contributions. In civilized discussions when educated people come down to insulting each other, then its time for me to respectfully exit. 

It makes me very sad to be put in the same category as the Chaudhrys’ of Gujrat.  

I say the same to you [sad] about your comment to J I Chaudry in your last paragraph, about his “spelling error”. 

Thank you. 

JCV