The Prisoner Of The Hague

The Prisoner Of The Hague is an Urdu autobiography, authored by acclaimed Dutch-Pakistani poet, writer, and journalist Ehsan Sehgal. It presents the grief of life, happiness, sadness, agony, hope, disappointment and a lot of other issues Ehsan Sehgal faced in his life when he left Pakistan and settled abroad.

Summary

The Prisoner of The Hague is an autobiography, written by Ehsan Sehgal. It presents the grief of life, happiness, sadness, agony, hope, disappointment and a lot of other issues Ehsan Sehgal faced in his life when he left Pakistan and settled abroad. He had to leave the country due to the fear of political victimization in Pakistan (in the Ziaul Haque era; the then dictator General Ziaul Haque had ousted an elected prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto) and at reaching Holland he had to face a lot of problems.

Theme of story

Ehsan Sehgal, a Dutch-Pakistani poet, author, and journalist, who left Pakistan in November 1978, during General Zia Ul Haq era. Ehsan Sehgal wrote his autobiography, covering events, and secrets of 38 years in the Netherlands. Sehgal wrote in his book that elected prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s death sentence on 4 April 1979, was only the conspiracy of a few Generals, most of Ahmadies Generals, behind that, with the help of judicial criminals. He wrote that, when he landed and asked political asylum in the Netherlands, he approached several diplomatic mission, and demonstrated for the favour and release of Bhutto.

Sehgal wrote; In January 1980, in a very early morning at about 4 O'clock, several policemen in civil dress, came and rushed to his apartment and arrested him, without any legitimate reasons, while he showed them the documents of the Privy Council, permitting him, to stay in the Netherlands, but police refused that and brought him, to the cell. Later, they released him. That all situation became a time bomb upon his senses and emotions, which caused a collapse of physical spirit and a great shock. The arrest reason was a letter, written by his brother in law that, destroyed his health, career, and marital life. After those all circumstances, the criminal gathered and started to harass and psychologically tortured, with the conspiracy of his brother in law.

Sehgal wrote, he was feeling and asking his wife that he felt no comfort in mind, as like someone was giving some sorts of chemical, which was causing physical and mental pain. The opponents also started the black magic practices, which a few ones believe that; otherwise, mostly, consider it, as a psychological matter and problem. In June 1980, Sehgal invited a few Pakistani high ranked officials from different institutions, who came to the Netherlands for the professional and educational training in various subjects. Sehgal also asked a Pakistan couple, to join him. After this occasion, within an hour, Sehgal suffered from the unknown attack on his body and mind; it was magic, or chemical, to kill him since he was writing and talking against Zia military regime of evils.

An invited woman prepared and served the tea, which no one drank except her and Sehgal. When they left, after a few hours, he felt a terrible physically attack since then he suffered from that more than forty years long. Surprisingly that lady had the same attack, as he came to know. Sehgal, time to time, every year, requested to the concerned ministries, institutions, law offices, courts, police, and even the media, to investigate the incident, but the answer was hopeless or utterly silent, which established only doubts, worries, and unsecured feelings about the institutions of the Netherlands Government. Sehgal wrote, As a fact, such conduct blocked and violated the human rights and fair and transparent justice within the civilized society; whereas, his cooperation and collaboration, to investigate the incident became unnoticed and unworthy; it executes discrimination, distinction, and even humiliation. Sehgal said, After the divorce, and a letter to the Pakistan authorities; he became under harassment, spy and psychological war since March 2013 and brutally violated his privacy by International Intelligence Agencies of that part of the world. Sehgal wrote, his question was that what the reason was, not to investigate that incident, and why the media keep silent on it; whereas, he offered his services free? Sehgal wrote about his life incident that he stayed determined until his last breath, to disclose the secret of that incident.

See also

• The Wise Way
• Breathing Words
• The Writing That Fragrances
• Zarb-e-Sukhan

External links

• The Prisoner Of The Hague - Google Books