Asim Effendi
Pakistan is blessed with priceless treasures whether it’s talented manpower, natural resources or antiquities. An overseas friend was kind enough to reach out to me regarding a discovery of priceless statute that the KP Police successfully prevented being smuggled abroad.
According to the press report of Daily Aaj, this priceless golden statue whose value runs into millions of US dollars was dug out by one Sami Ullah of village Waria in Upper Dir KP, when the local SHO was tipped off and he arrested the treasure hunter while he was attempting to dispose it off at the price of the current gold rate in the local Bazar.
Ironically, Pakistan today is reduced to a pauper state that can not pay off its loan and keeps selling its strategic assets one after the other being dug deep into a circular debt yet its billions of US dollars are either stashed abroad in foreign banks or investments parked in real estate abroad, the Dubai property list being the latest scandal of how the country is systematically bled to death.
When Germany attacked France during Second World War it was only the art the Nazi stole. I wonder we were neither attacked by any foreign country nor our treasures robbed by any foreigner except that we are the country’s own worst enemies and thieves of her treasures. We only treat Pakistan as a mere graveyard of our loved ones, wherever they die in any corner of the world the dead bodies are transported for burial to Pakistan to prove our loyalty to the soil as Pakistanies. What a shame.
I demand of the competent and professional Police General Honourable Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur to kindly ensure this priceless artefact is safely transported to his office at Peshawar and properly handed over to the Peshawar Museum for safekeeping given that most priceless pieces of the Ghandara unearthed in KP already adorn museums of either Lahore or Karachi and as per the 18th ammendments and provincial autonomy ought to be brought back to the Peshawar Museum being part of history and heritage of KP Province. .
