The elected Chief Minister of a province being rendered a missing person brings me back to the first missing person of this country, our founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He demoted a General, for merely having a political opinion, namely Ayub Khan, and posted him to the East Pakistan Rifles, barring him from any further promotion. On 14 June 1948, the Quaid addressed the Quetta Staff College and said, and I quote, “Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people.” He knew what they were up to and the harm they would do to his country. It didn’t sit well with the armed forces. A month later, Quaid-e-Azam was abducted and taken to Ziarat against his will. Ziarat has a 4,000-year-old history, yet in those 4,000 years, it received its first patient. There exists no sanatorium, no hospital, not even a dispensary, to this day. Even today, we cannot easily visit it. It is still kept primitive. The Quaid was cut off from the world there, just as Imran Khan is today, and so is Sohail Afridi. He, too, was placed in “protective custody.” This nation never saw him again. All of Pakistan’s problems will vanish the day we recover the first missing person, our Quaid, who was left to die, and the day the Generals accept their fate as servants of the people, bow their heads, and salute the civilian.