The very senior columnist and intellectual Jamil uddin Aali in his article showed his surprise that why despite having in the past so many times suffered in the hands of co-operative societies, finance companies, installment sales, forex companies etc people still do indulge in such dubious dealings and do not check authenticity before entering into a deal. His this article is on the back ground of early this year on public cry over the High Education Commission’s Parent’s awareness advertisement that more than 80 universities in the country were running one way or the other illegal. {After declaring one, as one such university is now claiming that HEC has apolgoised it and some writers have rightly questioned whether it was a mistake by HEC or it was just under pressure). Had it really been acceptance of a mistake, I am sure such a modus operandi of allegedly communicating directly with the University as claimed by it, would not had been adopted rather this information would had been communicated through another parent’s awareness advertisement.
As the learned columnist is surprised over public’s such attitude, I am surprised over the learned columnist’s own lack of such a general average understanding. The columnist must know that the public in all such schemes entered into because when such advertisements appear the public always took it as guaranteed that their authorities were vigilant and in their presence no one can cheat them. I may be wrong but I have read a citizen complained to Hazrat Umar that someone had stolen some money from his home. Hazrat Umar angrily enquired what you were doing (meaning why were you so digelent). The citizen replied I was then sleeping as I wrongly thought my Khalifa was awakening. As people with each new ruler trust the true new era dawned, likewise on each advertisement they feel the government was vigilantly monitoring it. An advertiser in 1993 released an advertisement for a New Islamabad Housing Scheme near Islamabad mentioning therein a NOC reference of Rawalpindi Development Authority. People rightly trusting on the advertisement that it must be true otherwise had it been wrong the Rawalpindi Development Authority very next day must had warned the public about incorrect claim of advertiser, started paying to the advertiser company. After seven years in 2000 the Rawalpindi Development Authority warned the pubic it had not given permission to the scheme. This public information was released after 7 years perhaps to ensure that enough money had gone to the builder. The columnist must know in the same way the public trusting these universities were working after due permission and registration paid huge fees and got their children admitted. On the other hand HEC did its due job warning the public only after ensuring that owners of these universities had got much finance to be able to construct their own ‘heavens”. People did their job and HEC did its job.