Monday, July 6, 2009

A Friend Betrayed

The meeting of the Management Committee at D C Colony office on June 12, 2009 was a decoy meeting. The real meeting had already been held somewhere else, according to some sources, in Islamabad before this dummy meeting.

In the Islamabad meeting Khalid Sultan decided to betray his friend, Khawaja Saleh.

How?

If you read item # 14 on the agenda of the meeting held at D C Colony office on June 12 you can easily figure out what must have happened in Islamabad.

The heading of the agenda item is: "Addressing The Residents' Demand for Participation In The Affairs Of The Society".

It says:

"Regarding this matter a meeting was arranged between Society President, Khalid Sultan and resident members at the residence of Khawaja Muhammad Saleh. Those present inlcuded Khawaja Muhammad Saleh, Talat Hameed Rathore, Mirza Muhammad Younas, Muhammad Khalid Butt, Arif Mahmood, Younas Butt, Dr. Muhammad Ali, Dr Amjad Chattha, Ziaullah Irfani, as well as Muhammad Arshad Cheema were Secretary of the society.

During the meeting resident members demanded that there must be representation of the residents in the Management Committee and sub-committees be made in which residents must be included. Moreover, the demanded that Khawaja Muhammad Saleh be nominated as a Representative of the residents.


Then the items disposes off the whole matter thus:

Major (R) Irshad Ahmad Chaudhry is already an elected member to represent residents and he regularly brings up the problems of the residents before the Management Committee. The Management Committee has already made organized sub-committees to run the affairs of the society in the best possible way. So there is no need for more sub-committees.

However the matter is brought up before the Management Committee.


Remember this simple explanation was never provided at the meeting arranged at Khawaja Saleh's house. Rather Khalid Sultan had promised that starting this coming December there will be sixty per cent representation by the rsident members and the approval of Khawaja Saleh's induction as a member of the Management Committee will be taken in committee's next meeting. Arshad Cheema was ordered to put these decisions taken at the said meeting in the minutes. It was a done deal.

But that was not to happen.

Khalid Sultan broke the word he had given in presence of everyone at the lunch meeting at Khawaja Saleh's house.

Actually, he had received from Khawaja Saleh what he wanted when he took him for a ride and asked him to use his influence with one of the government department heads and then dumped him.

Khawaja Saleh felt insulted and duped. Rightly so.

Major Irshad, who was bandied as a representative of the residents and made an excuse to keep Khawaja Saleh out, resigned from the management Committee when he heard that a new secretary had been planted only one day after the Management Committee meeting without consulting anyone at the Management Committee meeting on June 12. He was furious that he was not kept in the loop.

He was also upset that Dr Zafar Chaudhry had criticized him and called him as ineffective in the meeting and Khalid Sultan never came to his defence.

Now there is no resident representation in the Management Committee at all. Khawaja Saleh is still out in the cold and livid. Arshad Cheema is enriched and gone. Residents are as helpless as before. The Core Group has more reasons to be enraged.

And Khalid Sultan rules the roost as he did before.

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