COMPLAINING AGAINST LATE DELIVERY

8/12 Model Town,

Lahore.

M/s Pakistan Times,

Lahore.

Dear Sirs,

I have to complain against late delivery of your ape to me in the morning. The hawker concerned always regrets his inability to be in time, they says that sale procedure is cumbersome at the office counter stage and therefore the Management itself is to blame. Will you, please look into it? Failing to get a satisfactory reply, I am afraid, I will have to switch over to some other Daily.

Yours faithfully.

LETTER TO A NEW AGENCY

6/13, Rehamn Lane,

Lahore.

M/s Mueen News Agency,

Lahore.

Dear Sirs,

As we shall be away from Lahore on a holiday for a short time please stop the delivery of all morning papers after March 20. We will require the papers after April 20.

Yours faithfully.

LETTER ASKING FOR A CHILD’S HOME WORK TO BE EXCUSED

7/8 Model Town,

Lahore.

March 13, 1994.

To

The Headmaster,

Dear Sir,

Would you kindly excuse M.A.Khan, Class VII, for not doing the home work that he should done last night? Unfortunately my son came home in the evening with a severe headache and I thought if necessary for him to go to bed. Thus, he was unable to do his home work.

Yours faithfully.

LETTER REGARDING ABSENCE OF A CHILD FROM SCHOOL

1/3, Model Town,

Lahore.

March 8, 1994

The Headmaster, Dear sir,

My son, Khalid Ali, is returning to school today after nearly a fornight’s absence. A few days ago he was vaccinated and soon developed a very painful arm. In the circumstances, the only advisable thing was to keep his indoors. In the meantime he developed some fever also. He is much better new. Though I am afraid he might have missed much on account of his absence, yet I believe he will do what he can to make up for the lost time.

Yours faithfully.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Mr,

The British Council Library operates in Lahore, with a minimum of rules. All new members are sincerely welcome, the main consideration is that the few rules and regulations that are enforced or relaxed from time to time work for the benefit of the total borrowing membership of the library.

  1. You are required to furnish your name, surname and complete address, and telephone nember, if any, you will have to furnish local reference.
  2. We charge no admission fees, but you will have to pay Rs.100/- as annual subscription which falls due on April 1 every year. No refund is made in case the member decides to close his membership before the expiry of the period for which subscription has once been paid.
  3. We issue a borrower’s card which will entitle you to borrow one book at a time for a period of 15 days.
  4. One renewal ton upon request subject for a period of 7 days is possible, and after expiry of this period, no further renewal are allowed.
  5. Borrowers are responsible for the materials checked out to them and for their safe return. Lost or damaged books would have to be paid for in accordance with the market rate of the book, or if the book is available in the market, at a rate to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Library. In that case borrowing priviledges will be suspended until the Library is reimbursed.
  6. Reference books magazines and some art books are no loaned out by library. The Librarian on duty will have the final word as to which book on material can be loaned for home use.
  7. The Library reserves the right to suspend the borrowing privileges of any member who shows lack of sense of responsibility in dealing with the property of the Library.

Yours faithfully.

RIGHTS AND DUTIES

Dear Friend,

Much has been said about the rights and duties of the individual. In society, an individual has both rights and duties-rights from birth and duties to society. It is not enough for anybody to claim only his rights and ignore his duties. Claiming of right must be a natural concomitant to performing certain duties. There is equilibrium in nature and the individual must balance his life and bring harmony between his rights and duties. If an individual does not do his duty, somebody else will have to do his work, because the cycle of life must move on and we can lift weight from one place only throwing greater weight an another palce, thereby disturbing the balance. The same logic appliex to rights, somebody else will have any easy access to add to this own rights and this again will be a precursor to a great disharmony in life, and that is how the process of exploitation of an individual by another individual is that he should “learn to labour in striking a balance between rights and duties, one must, however take care that duties should precede rights. An individual should be up and doing. He should have a heart for everything. The greatest education of an individual, and to wait” If our educational institutions do not impart this code of education to the students, they need not give them any education at all.

Yours sincerely.

OUR DRESS

Dear Student,

More has been told about our national dress. It is essential that our dress should be indigenous. The question of advantage, economy and simplicity should govern the selection of our dress. Shalwar has got all these advantages: that is why this is being used by various nations; including Pakistani Factory workers, who cannot wear loose garments, can wear shalwar. A wire man wrote that that we should not hesitate to take the best things and customs from other nations. Now let me know what is your opinion?

Yours sincerely.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Sir,

In reply to your letter dated 6.10.90 please note that we do not issue any separate receipt to policy holders in respect of premiums received through their employers. your premiums against policy No. 437820 are being in this office regularly. You can treat this letter as our receipt.

Yours faithfully,

Manager,

New Asiatic Assurance Co., Ltd.

CRISES IN PAKISTAN

Dear Sir,

You are well aware that the Government of Pakistan has been running a handiclip race ever since the achievement of freedom. Its path has been strewn not with flowers but with thorns. Latest in the series of difficulties has come the Indian aggression of our Eastern border. If we make a thorough study of Indian intentions in a series of events, the Indian motives become clear Ideologically the two countries are poles apart. The Indian habit of mind suffering from vanity and jealously has spread no effort to play up its own achievements in economic field and overtly run down our democracy. To achieve their aim, they have never hesitated from telling lies over a large network of radio T.V. and the Press. Since the world was for from convinced, they thought, in a moment of fit to invade Pakistan and establish their military supermacy. They thought, and rightly, that this will create terror in the smaller States in South-East Asia and expose Pakistans’ weakness in the sphere of military. This aim has been achieved. The India have done, within less than a month, what all the Western Powers as well as a large section of Pakistan public could not achieve over a decade. India have secured the people’s clear cut turnabout from a posture of neutrality to one of close association with the West. Many other factors have combined to inflate our currency so that the cost of living has gone up and the millions of Pakistanis are groaning are groaning under a heavy weight of misery. The indian attack will have a great after-effect on Pakistan’s economy since we must need shift our emphasis from economic to military fields. This will add to our difficulties. We hope to overcome our immediate difficulties, but permanent solutions must be found by he people themselves and this our leaders are determined to do.

Yours sincerely,

ABC.