The author was an Indian Superior Services (ICS) Officer who shifted to Pakistan after
independence in 1947. He had held
most authoritative offices from a Deputy Commissioner of a District to Personal Secretary of the President of Pakistan. He was also an Embassador of Pakistan in Holland. The book, thus, is the first hand account of political activities and bureaucracy moulding from
independence to till early 70s.
The auther has written the details of how British Raj ruled over India and has mentioned some of the characteristics of British rulers to keep the local
population ubder their control and how they had established a system of command, communication and intelligence. Local population, intentionally, was kept uneducated, poor, frightened of the rulers and the freedom of speech was snatched to keep the Raj''s superemecy. Once there was starvation due to non-availability of rations, the author was sermoned for having opened the gates of governmental godowns for local population.
The author, after having given the understanding of how British Raj was organised, states the acts of bureaucracy in newly independent Pakistan; whose officers were trained by the same British Officers. The local red tapism, according to the author, started right after the independence and he mentions how unjustly the migrants were treated, who were migrating to Pakistan from India for a better future in their "own" motherland.
Qudrut Ullah Shahaab then continues mentioning how Pakistan''s foreign policy was deformed and how things kept worsening in the hands of bureaucracy, politicians and fudel lords who made sure that such a system be formed on a permanent basis that no common man can ever enter into the position where they can play the role of formation of state policies. The spice was added by super powers, who had special interest in Pakistan due to its geo-political location and China, India, Afghanistan and Iran being its neighbors.
In the last chapter, the author has mentioned the religious thoughts and has talked on Rohaniyat. Over all its a worth reading book in Urdu Language and provides good understanding of political behaviors and autocracy after the transition of powers from British rulers to locals.