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Conversations on issues of development policy in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia. Political economy subjects that are seldom featured in the media will be taken up.
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Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Umer Gilani is a young lawyer who has been involved in litigation on behalf of engineers and professionals to end discrimination against them in contesting for senior government positions.
In the current colonial system, all senior positions are reserved for the PAS/DMG, regardless of skill and training. Thus, Secretary WAPDA needs no specialized training, nor does Chairman FBR or any other leading positions. All are reserved for PAS/DMG.
In fact professionals including doctors have a short career horizon in government. They enter in grade 17 and mostly retire in grade 20.
Is this our government model for the challenges of 21stcentury?
We discuss issues of civil service reform with Umer Gilani.
Listen to this very informative podcast.
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I totally agree with specialization in Civil serious. I would rather add that salec
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
Discussion is quite productive and undoubtedly professionalism is the key to make Civil Service more vibrant and efficient. For instance, a civil servant from Commerce and Trade group is well equipped with all the tools to make policies for export growth likewise other specialized Occupational groups. Interestingly, all the policy makeing positions are captured by those who didn't even learn about economy and economic issues. Hence, we have to shift towards specialized civil service.
Saturday Sep 08, 2018
What about the Ministry of Information. ?A good good government tool to manipulate and control political discourse in the country. ...
Tuesday Sep 04, 2018
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