ON EDUCATING STUDENTS

Dear Sarwar,

My wife and I highly appreciate the extra pains you took to bring our children up to the class level in the shortest possible time. We realise that but for your help they might have been detained this year.

Yours sincerely,

Farooq.

ON BIRTHDAY

Greenland,

Islamabad.

December 29,1993

Dear Waheed,

Accept my heartiest greetings on your attaining the 17th year. You are no longer a child now. How soon you have grown! May you continue to grow and grow and grow!

Yours,

Rashan Ara.

ON BORROWING A BOOK

Dear Nafees,

Thanks a lot for lending me your book “Ends and Means” by Aldous Huxely. It is really on eyeopener. It has revealed to me the evils in our civilisation.

Thanks once again.

Yours sincerely,

Naveed.

ON HAVING BEEN A GUEST

Dear Sajid,

Thanks a lot for the nice time Shammi Rani and I spent in your company last month. Do pay us a return visit to have another pleasant chance of your company. Come Soon. Please bring Babloo also with you.

Yours,

Qurban

ON RECEVING ADVICE

Dear Daddy,

Many thanks for your advice not to take a government job. I will learn like you to stand on my legs and not “dine at the public trough” as they nickname government servants in America.

Yours,

Nawaz