Hakeem Muhammad Saeed was a widely-loved national figure – a philanthropist, book-writer, educationist and healer, well recognized nationally and internationally, also a former governor of Sindh. He was especially known by children because of his focus on producing quality literature for children through a children’s monthly magazine Hamdard Naunehal whose editor was another book-writer and book-translator Masood Ahmad Barakaati. At that time the whole nation was in shock, grieving and in a state of disbelief, thus the print media gave the case coverage for a long time. Every day there was sizzling new news about how some investigative reporter has new knowledge of who committed this gruesome crime.
I was in middle school at that time and daily read newspapers for the Current Trends section of Social Studies subject. I clearly remember the newspapers writing “Mazda Hiace” and Mazda “Hi-Axe” again and again, demonstrating the lack of automotive knowledge of crime reporters, editors and proofreaders and the haste with which they wanted to report the breaking news. It also shows the genericization of the HiAce product name which is in actual a registered brand name owned by Toyota.