User:Mohammad Abdullah Butt/sandbox

Mr. Ashiq Ali Butt had a pleasing personality. He borne in a village near Lahore (second biggest city of Pakistan) in 1937. Got his initial studies from native village Narung while he did kept his sheep herd for sometime in childhood and helped his father at his sweet shop. He used to be a topper in his class always as the people witnessed him. By his twenty got an initial level job in Railways, which was known to be the back bone of country and the government. Got some progress in the job due to God given brilliance and soon passed the departmental exam to get officer's grade at the earliest in his service career. Got married in 1966 while he was serving as grade 16 officer in accounts department.

Railways was setup by English during their colonial times to get an easy hold over longitudes and latitudes of the subcontinent. It had a reflection of the taste and culture of English in its ways, procedures, offices, stations, platforms, waiting rooms, workshops, service areas, shunting lines all over. The people who worked there also got a glimpse of this taste and a bit of culture. English at work are disciplined. They implemented discipline during their times and after them that discipline remained there. Even now if you visit Pakistan Railways offices you will find yourself in times of the centuries when English were there. This is a distinctive feeling you won't find while visiting other Government offices of the country.

Living the life of a disciplined officer he used to get up before sun rise and get ready for train going to Lahore from Narowal, the main city station near the village. That train used to stop for a very short while at village station so he used to leave house for the railways station by foot when the train leave from Narowal. By the time train reaches Narung platform Mr Butt used to be ready to take his train. Travel time to Lahore Junk-shun platform was about 45 minutes and the day started by reaching in Railways Head Quarters in 15 more minutes after leaving morning train. Working in the century back environment of English disciplined the officer for the life. Sharply shaved, neat and clean nice personality used to work, gossip with colleagues and deal official matters till afternoons and in evening getting on foot to take the train of an hour to get back to the village daily. Hardly there were any holidays in the life as un-availed leaves used to gather for years piling up in hundreds.

Mr Butt shifted to Lahore in 1968 where he was blessed with a son. In Lahore the living got bit easy as now didn't have to catch the train to reach to office and back. The house was at a distance of 10-15 minutes. So now the easy phase of life started while having the responsibilities getting twofold. The living expenses increased since there was not an owned house! The small family had to hire a small house, the city like Lahore had higher rates of living as compared to village.