Some public leaders have left lasting imprints on the minds of the people due to their excellent qualities of head and heart.
When Mao TSE Tung was on his death bed he sent a message to his comrades and general public that he had an hunch that they will declare his day of demise as a national public holiday which they will observe every day. They had better not do it as it will turn him in his grave; his soul would be happy if instead of observing a holiday on that day, all of them worked double the period they spend daily and work overtime on that day every year as that would strengthen the economy of their country .
Imam Khomeini refused to live in the palace after the Shah vacated it and fled to the US, and instead lived the remaining days of his life in his small house located in Tehran.
Ghulam Ishaque Khan had worked on many lucrative posts as a bureaucrat in Pakistan before making it to the Presidency but when he died he was in possession of only the same land which he had inherited from his father. He didn’t add an inch to it. When Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was martyred he didn’t have an house of his own, so the rulers at that time had to find a job as ambassador in Holland for his wife Raana Liaqat Ali Khan in order to solve her bread and butter and accommodation problems.
When the founder of this nation was living in Governor General House in Karachi one of his cousins visited Governor House for seeking his mulaqat and handed over his visiting card to his ADC on which he had written in his hand cousin of Quaid e Azam in front of his name. When the ADC handed over that card to the Quaid for orders the Quaid struck off the words cousin of Quaid e Azam written on it with red ink and said to his ADC to tell the aspirant of his mulaqat to never ever write the word cousin of Quaid e Azam on his visiting card and as far as mulaqat is concerned he will call him when he was free. Ho Chi Minh was the ruler of North Vietnam under whose leadership a super power like America could not subdue his country in a long drawn out war in 1960s. When our ambassador called on him in his office in Hanoi to present his credentials, he found his office furniture was made of cheaper bamboo wood.
