Omissions of high commissions

The Pakistan report card Thursday, July 24, 2008 Fasi Zaka In his last week's column in The News by Wajid Shamsul Hasan, the high commissioner of Pakistan to the UK, raises a lot of contentious issues whose interpretation he gives as a state functionary is subject to doubt. Wajid Shamsul Hasan, a former journalist, wrote to clarify the position of the PPP which he saw under threat from "conspiracies". His opening volley described himself as a "detached observer" sitting three thousand miles away, which is technically not true since he is a political appointee as a high commissioner to the UK from the PPP (not that this necessarily means he is not suited for the position, which he may very well be). The high commissioner's article had the gist of accusation, that people like Naheed Khan and Makhdom Amin Fahim were out to... [read full story]