Dear Sandy Sneddon & Church of Pakistan Mission Partners Forum (CPMPF) Marry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. We take it a privilege to respond to your e-mail and thank you in particular for providing us this opportunity of preaching to the west and the Western Partners. Please remember that the Lord is the head of the Church including the Church of Pakistan and the Churches of the west which all of you represent. Please do not forget that the Partners and the Bishops of the Church of Pakistan are not the sole bosses of the Church. In fact they are the servants of the Lord and stewards who must go by the Book The Bible, which is the manual for the working of the Church. There fore we expect all of you to work and think accordingly. Your Neo-Colonial attitude and resultantly the training to the Bishops have misled the Church and still goes on to do so. You have along with the Bishops continued to condemn our group that has now stood up against the corruption and illegalities in the Church of Pakistan but you have never reflected on the issues and irregularities so far. As a good Christian you must have condemned the unjust and corrupt practices in the Church, rather you are trying hard to cover up the illegal practices of our leaders, specially the Bishops. How come you speak of the forgiveness when there has been no repentance and correction on the part of the corrupt Bishops? Please remember that it is no longer the Church of the Bishops and the Partners but a Church of the people who gave responsibilities to the leaders and have a right to question all, including you. You remember the sale of Church of Scotland properties and search into the records of the Church of Scotland where the reports into the sale of the Church properties is shelved and be honest to the Christian inside you to bring into the Knowledge of the common people and get their opinion over it. Remember that you have in person tried to cover the sale of Saint Andrews Church, Karachi and tried to protect those who are responsible. Please also tell the common people as to how much pain you and members of the CPMPF took over the illegal sale of properties by LDTA of Bishop Malik who have replaced the Articles of Association and the constitution of the Diocese of Lahore on their own to get a free hand over the assets. Please also tell us what would you do in your capacity to recover the funds that have been drained out by your front men, as you are a Partner and feel proud to be called so. Please go back a few years into the records and look into one of the audit reports of the Church of Pakistan wherein your auditor has put in black and white that Bishop Samuel of Raiwind kept duplicate set of account books. Your questionable attitude has encouraged the Bishops of the Church of Pakistan and more particularly the illegal Bishop of Peshawar where you worked as a missionary for several years. Please educate the ignorant persons as to what is your opinion on the resignation of Bishop Mano and his coming back to reclaim the episcopacy of that Diocese. Very Shortly we are printing a White Paper along with the proofs of what we are talking about. So far we kept the issues from the general public and the press. We did not take these to the courts even, that was the time you failed because of your diplomatic stand and favouring some of the Bishops instead of telling them to correct their practices. Even you as CPMPF pressurized the Bishops of the smaller and poor Dioceses to bow down to the corrupt Bishops. Let us tell you that you are not helping the Church of Pakistan but causing it to grow weaker so that one day some of you reclaim it. Be very clear that it shall not be allowed to happen. The recent verdicts (on which we do not count) from the courts indicate that many secrets so far will be placed on the record of the courts to adjudicate the unjust practices of the Bishops and partners like you shall be responsible who are not willing to bring justice and merit in the functions of the Church of Pakistan system. Would you take courage to elaborate and reflect on merit within seven days of the receipt of this e-mail? We are proud of the Church of Pakistan as we are publishing the facts and issues, which you are trying to hide from your managing committees and the common people. Revd. Shafiq Kanwal Presbyter Karachi Diocese, Church of Pakistan Address: Holy Trinity Cathedral Fatima Jinnah Road Karachi – Pakistan Email: shafiqkanwal@hotmail.com & revshafiq@yahoo.com