Honourable Provincial Chief Executive.

A satirical Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan for the acknowledgment of his services.

The ensuing letter is written with a solemn and firm conviction to explicate the sanctity of moral pedestal that you have attained and to apprise the general masses at large of the services you have dispensed and the sacrificial contributions you have made for the social welfare, societal betterment and institutional re-organization of our society. It is an onus upon those in loop of your endeavours to further disseminate the saga of your achievements to ensure their shelter from divine anathema for the crime of its concealment.

The dispensation of justice, the uplift of the downtrodden, and the alleviation of poverty have been the cornerstone of your political campaign. Soon after you assumed the helm of chief ministership, you reinforced your commitment on the floor of the house to avail yourself of every opportunity to act up to your vows. Those around you on their seats and the ones glued to their television sets felt a surge of excitement after having listened to your speech. You generated a spine-chilling wave of gusto in an auspiciously powerful oration. A strong sense of trustworthiness ran through the veins of your words.|

To this end, you strained every nerve from the onset and appointed hand-picked civil servants and endowed them with perks, privileges and unwarranted authority. They were provided with the license to liberally manipulate, slyly maneuver, and advertently hamstring the local civil administration at will and whim to peddle for a greater sway over the resources. Funds were criminally tapped into, resources were brutally abused, illegal inductions were carried out at industrial scale, and financial largesse was distributed amongst the cronies with impunity at your behest. By pressing into use your political go-ahead, these civil servants showcased their exceptional calibre in siphoning off money by bypassing all the auditory filters. Industrious, painstaking, and assiduous bureaucrats were either upstaged or were incapacitated of their legal right to undertake any meaningful enterprise. They were vilified, ridiculed, and disempowered only with an intent to further strengthen the organizational sinew of our civil administrative skeleton.

The spree of showering the financial blessings did not restrict itself to the civil servants, the political elite and the government contractors were also collaborating in unison...

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