Bilal Pasha's suicide!
"In the days like ours, death drips in the middle". This phrase attributed to the late Indian actor Irfan Khan on the suicide of the young civil servant Bilal Pasha is being presented as if the deceased had left a strong and brilliant tradition. Earlier, the manner in which the virtues of the suicide of a religious scholar's young son were described and now the manner in which the sudden death of this young officer is being presented, looking at it, it seems like an admirable feat to distill sorrow from a life of luxury and then embrace death by labeling that toxic jam as depression. Perhaps due to this kind of acceptance, the trend of suicide is increasing in the society. Over the past few years, many government officials have chosen this path.
In January 2022, a similar incident occurred when Additional Revenue Commissioner Imran Raza Abbasi committed suicide by hanging himself in Lahore. He had been transferred to Lahore a day before, but due to unknown reasons, he hanged himself from the ceiling fan. In November 2021, there was news about Peshawar Development Authority Assistant Director Syed Farman Bacha that he committed suicide. In December 2020, a senior bureaucrat, Khurram Humayun, who was a Grade 22 officer and was posted as the Director General of the Controller General of Accounts, committed suicide by putting a bullet in his forehead. In January 2020, SP Abrar Hussain Nikokara, who was posted as the principal of the Police Training School in Rawat, committed suicide with a service pistol. Similarly, in March 2018, the body of Deputy Commissioner Gujranwala Sohail Tipu was found hanging with a fan. In June 2016, SSP Jafarabad Jahanzeb Khan Kakar ended his life. These series of tragic events need to be seriously considered.
I did not have any acquaintance with this young Bilal Pasha, but thinking of his parents fills heart with sadness. It is said that this young man was born in a poor family in the town of Khanewal, Abdul Hakeem. Bilal was the youngest of the five sons of his father Ahmed Yar who was adopted by his uncle Bashir Ahmed due to his childlessness. After passing the CSS exam in 2019, he became the center of attention when he stood next to the brick wall in the village with his uncle and outspoken father Bashir Ahmed and told the story of his continuous struggle and success.
He said that only two or three people in the family have passed the matriculation examination. I received my primary education from a Maktab school established in a mosque. Then passed matric and FSC exam from government school and college. I studied in a school where ABCs are taught from 6th grade onwards. Both my father and mother had no formal education. This is my proud father Bashir Ahmed, who has worked as a laborer all his life. Alhamdulillah I am very proud that I am the son of a labour. On this occasion, his father expressed his feelings in Punjabi and said, "If you have such a son, Fatigue goes away".
Bilal Pasha saw very difficult situations, did menial jobs to make ends meet, joined the police as a sub-inspector, but continued to pursue his dreams, did various government jobs of 17th grade, finally, success kissed him and after clearing the civil service examination, he started a brilliant career as a civil servant in Military Lands and Cantonment. After his success, these examples continued to be given that not only the luminaries of big and influential families can do CSS, children from poor families belonging to backward areas can also become civil servants. If a car with a blue light and green number plate is found, the marriage will also take place in a good family.
His ex-wife, from whom he separated some time ago, is said to be posted in Rawalpindi. A few days ago, Bilal Pasha was posted from Bannu to Rawalpindi, but instead of leaving the charge and coming here, he left the world. Some people are suing their ex-spouse. Some people believe that the kind of pressure they face while in government service has proved fatal. People argue that our bureaucrats have authority and protocol, but the salary does not cover the comforts and luxuries, when the children's lifestyle cannot be improved according to their social status, and if the honest officers are not ready to accept bribes, then there is depression. This sentence of Bilal Pasha's father is also being presented that a week before he died he called and said, Baba! My soul longs for me to leave my work, take a leave of absence, and return home to spend endless hours sleeping.
Wow, what a great explanation. If a person rises from the lows of poverty and disgrace and reaches the heights of prosperity and greatness, instead of expressing satisfaction over it, should he jump into the pit of death because there are more heavens ahead of him? How many youths drink the poison of unemployment and live in the hope that their time will come. It should happen that the labour's son should be proud of his fortune after becoming an officer, the time looks at him with jealous eyes. But the self-pitying young man commits suicide and the society makes him a hero by saying that "when our days come, death falls in the middle". You drip in the middle death doesn't. At least this old father would have thought of what would happen to him while landing in grave.
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