Dr. Yasmin Rashid's Letter from Jail - 25 August 2025
Punjab has been inundated by floods and our Form 47 Chief Minister is having a nice time in Japan at the expense of the public exchequer. An Air Force plane is at her disposal. Somebody please tell us which blue book provides this protocol to the CM of a province, and will this protocol be extended to all the other CMs of Pakistan?
I am absolutely astonished at the ideas that she floats on her visits. Last time when she went to China she wanted to replicate the health system of China. Now she wants to replicate the health system of Japan and also wants to follow the health insurance policy of Japan. My dear lady, there was no need to spend public money to get these ideas.
We have done a lot of research on health insurance. The program is successfully running in KP, it was doing very well in Punjab also, before you stopped it. You just needed to come to Kot Lakhpat Jail and I would have told you that the health insurance done by our government was fool proof, it was appreciated at all forums in the world. International Health Journals appreciated it. It was an excellent program and was a win-win situation – but you are so petrified of Imran Khan and PTI that you terminated the program even when the statistics showed it was beneficial to people of Punjab. Punjab on the other hand has now become a police province.
The Punjab police is criminalized and weaponised against the public. Arresting Aleema Khan’s sons after 27 months is the worst sort of fascism that the people are facing. You should all be ashamed of yourselves on this reign of terror in Punjab.
Everyday you read about people being killed by CCP, and the narrative in all the cases is that the man was a criminal and was killed by his accomplices, although he was under police jurisdiction. The worst incidence that happened on the day Imran Khan’s bails were granted — the police arrested four children from my constituency ranging between the age of 3–7 because they were distributing sweets — how low can you go.
In the end Madam CM, I hope you got to see the bullet train in Japan and I hope you paid attention to the rails — you wanted to set up a bullet train on these 100-year-old rails which in the last seven months have had more than 70 derailment accidents in Pakistan, I think it would have been a complete disaster.
May Allah help us in these difficult times.
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
Yasmin Rashid