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Ban imposed on purchase of staff cars for grade 20-22 civil servants


ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved the rules/policy for 'Compulsory Monetization of Transport Facility for Civil Servants (BPS-20 to 22)'.

The rules/policy were formulated in line with the decision of the cabinet in its meeting held on June 3,2011.

The application of the monetization policy will be compulsory for all civil servants (BS-20 to 22) as per the approved parameters.

According to the proposed policy, there will be complete ban on purchase of staff cars while no officer of BS-20 to BS-22 will be entitled and authorized to use project vehicles or the departmental operational/general duty vehicles for any kind of duty.

Services of the regular permanent driver will be offered to BS-20 to BS-22 civil servants on optional basis on deduction of Rs. 10,000/-per month from the monetized value. There will be no new recruitment of drivers.

The implementation of the policy will result in likely savings of Rs.1.369 billion per annum. (APP)

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Sindh card users banking on Punjabi Baboo brigade
Ansar Abbasi
Monday, December 05, 2011


ISLAMABAD: President Zardari’s blessed Gilani government, which makes tall claims about serving the interest of the smaller federating units and leaves no opportunity to use the Sindh card, is betting on the brigade of top Punjabi bureaucrats to run his government as other provinces have either no or extremely low representation in the federal secretariat.

Out of the 49 federal secretaries, heading federal divisions, 43 belong to Punjab, three each from Sindh and KPK while there is not even a single bureaucrat from Balochistan leading any of the federal divisions. Two of the three federal secretaries, including Cabinet Secretary Nargis Sethi and Finance Secretary Dr Waqar Masood, have hardly or never served in Sindh in their whole career.

Punjabi bureaucrats never had a smoother sailing in the history of Pakistan than what they are presently enjoying under the PPP regime—a government which otherwise pays a lot of lip service to the ‘federation’ and the rights of the smaller federating units.

A who’s who of top-level federal bureaucracy reveals that the Federation of Pakistan has practically withered away as far as top-level bureaucratic placements are concerned. Despite all the much ado about the Balochistan package, Sindh mainstreaming and addressing the deprivation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the smaller federating units have practically nil representation at the policy and leadership level in the federal civil services and at the top policy making body of the country — the federal secretariat.

All the key civil servants posted in important bureaucratic positions are either direct ‘selectees’ of Prime Minister Gilani or ‘recommendees’ of Senior Minister Chaudry Perviaz Elahi as terms of engagement with the PPP have made it a point that all the Punjabi bureaucrats who were part of the Pervaiz Elahi team in Musharraf regime are given key positions in the federal government. This favouritism have totally disproportionate the share of the federating units in complete favour of Punjab.

It is shocking to see that out of 49 ministries and divisions surveyed, 43 positions of federal secretaries are occupied by Baboos belonging to Punjab, whereas three posts of federal secretaries are occupied by Sindhi bureaucrats, three by officers, belonging to KPK, and PM Gilani could not find even one single Baloch civil servant for a responsible position in Islamabad.

As per the Constitution, the share of provinces in the Federal Civil Services is 50 percent for Punjab, and 23 percent for Sindh, 11.5 percent for KP, 4 percent and 5% for Fata and 4 percent for Balochistan. Any government which wants to strengthen the federation should go beyond this proportion on the principles of affirmative action.

Interestingly, members of the federal cabinet, MNAs and senators have also turned a blind eye to this erosion of the federal civil service. President Zardari, who leaves no opportunity to play the Sindh card or smaller provinces card, also ignored this cartelisation of the federal bureaucracy. Even President Zardari’s own secretariat is stuffed with Punjabi bureaucrats.

One strange aspect of this scandalous under representation of smaller provinces at the top position in Islamabad is that all the major coalition partners of the PPP belonging to smaller provinces — the MQM, ANP, JUI, Fata representatives and PML-Q — have never raised a word against this historic injustice to the federation.

It is worth mentioning here that all major policy formulation bodies, like the federal cabinet, ECC, Ecnec, Planning Commission, depend on expert advice of all these federal secretaries, hence the smaller provinces are practically excluded from these important policy positions.

Following is the list of Punjabi Baboos ruling the roost under the PPP government: Junaid Iqbal Ch, Secretary Capital Administration and Development Division; Zafar Mahmood, Secretary Commerce; Anwar Ahmad Khan, Secretary Communications; Abdul Wajid Rana, Secretary Economic Affairs; Rana Asad Amin, Special Secretary Finance; Sarshar Ahmad Khan, Special Secretary, Military Finance; Salman Bashir, Secretary Foreign Affairs; Kamran Lashari, Secretary Housing & Works; Mrs Batool Iqbal Qureshi, Secretary, Human Rights; Muhammad Ahsan, Addl Secretary in charge, Human Resources Development; Taimur Azmat Usman, secretary Information and Broadcasting; Saeed Ahmad Khan, Secretary Information Technology & Tele-communication; Khawaja Siddique Akbar, Secretary Interior; Muhammad Arif Azeem, Secretary Railways; Babur yaqoob, Secretary, Kashmir Affairs and Northern Affairs; Muhammad Masood Chishti, Secretary Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs; Sohail Ahmad, Secretary Narcotics Control; Karamat Hussain Niazi, Secretary National Assembly; Anisul Hasnain Musavi, Secretary National Harmony Division; Javed Malik, Secretary National Disaster Management; Shafqat Hussain Naghmi, Secretary National Food Security and Research; Maj (r) Qamar Zaman, Secretary Overseas Pakistanis (Additional Charge); Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhry, Secretary Petroleum & Natural Resources; Javed Mahmood, Secretary, Planning & Development; Agha Sarwar Raza Qazilbash, Secretary Ports & Shipping; Raja Ikramul Haq, Secretary Postal Services; Maj (r) Haroon Rashid, Special Secretary, President’s Secretariat (Public); Maj (r) Malik Asif Hayat, Secretary, President’s Secretariat (Public); Khushnood Akhtar Lashari, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, Prime Minister’s Secretariat / Federal Secretary, Establishment (Addl Charge); Muhammad Ayub Kazi, Special Secretary, Prime Minister’s Secretariat; Shahid Hussain Raja, Secretary Privatisation; Muhammad Javed Iqbal Awan, Secretary Production; Maj (r) Qamar Zaman, Secretary Professional and Technical Training; Arif Azeem, Secretary, Railways; Shoukat Hayat Durrani, Federal Secretary, Religious Affairs; Salman Siddique, Chairman Federal Board of Revenue; Ikhlaq Ahmad Tarar, Secretary Scientific & Technological Research; Asif Bajwa, Secretary Statistics; Shahid Rasheed, Secretary Textile Industry; Maj (r) Khawaja Muhammad Naeem, Wafaqi Mohtasib’s Secretariat.

KP got a slightly better deal, because Federal Industries Secretary Aziz Bilour has two brothers as a federal minister and provincial ministers. The other two KP based federal secretaries being Amjad Ali Khan, Secretary Inter Provincial Coordination and Habib Ullah Kahn as secretary States and Frontier Regions.

The only Sindhi federal secretary is Imtiaz Qazi working as federal secretary Water and Power whereas Nargis Sethi, Federal Secretary Cabinet and Dr Waqar Masood Khan, Federal Secretary, Finance, too have Sindh domiciles but if not all, they served the most part of their careers in Islamabad.

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Deputation: a boon or bane?


THIS is apropos of the letter ‘Deputation: a bureaucratic menace’ (Nov 26). After going through which one gathers the impression that the entire bureaucratic corruption has been caused by people who are deputed.

The term deputation needs to be understood in its true perspective. According to the prevailing procedure, a government employee is said to be on deputation when he is temporarily transferred through due process to a post in another department or organisation which does not originally belong to the person deputed.

According to existing conventions between the provinces and the federation, deputation is a permanent feature of the mutual exchange of services between provincial employees and federal employees.

Available statistics makes it abundantly clear that federal employees working in the provinces on a transfer basis (i.e. on deputation) are thrice the number of all provincial employees working in the federation.

The provision of deputation in the service structure of employees, while providing horizontal and vertical movements, allows them to get exposure to a variety of experiences.

No seasoned and known career civil servant in the civil service history of Pakistan has ever clung either to a single post or a single department in his entire service career.

Deputation is protected under statutory rules passed by both provincial and federal legislatures governing civil servants of both provincial and federal cadres in the shape of Civil Servant Acts.

Deputation in itself is neither good nor bad. It is bad governance and mismanagement which is the root cause of bureaucratic corruption and not deputation itself, which is simply a procedure for transferring an officer from one cadre to another.

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Bureaucrats can now buy official cars, for peanuts
By Shahbaz Rana

Toyota Corolla, 2006 model, well maintained. Asking price: Rs330,000
The offer above is not a fluke. It is made by the government to top bureaucrats, under its monetisation of transport facility policy recently approved by the prime minister.
Under the policy, the government has given civil servants, from grade 20 to 22, the option to purchase cars allocated to them on depreciated prices.
The policy was formulated in light of revelations that top civil servants were using more cars than designated to them, and causing billions of rupees in loss to the exchequer on account of fuel expenses.
Benevolence of accounting
So how does a 2006 Toyota Corolla come down to one-third its market price in five years? The benevolence of accounting tricks.
Depreciation, a standard accounting practice, slashes the value of an asset on account of its physical wear-and-tear. There is no standard depreciation formula though, and each organisation can formulate its own, as long as it keeps it consistent.
Under the new rules, the government has changed its rules of depreciation.
From an earlier policy of depreciating 15% in the first year, and 10% in subsequent years, the government has allowed for 15% depreciation for each year of the vehicle’s life.
According to the new formula, therefore, a 1300cc car purchased in 2006 at Rs870,000 will have a depreciated value of Rs330,000 on January 1, 2012.
Market value of a similar car, of course, is much higher. “A well-maintained 2006 Corolla is available in the market for about Rs1 million, while one in an average condition is available between Rs900,000 and Rs950,000,” said Raja Safeer, owner of an automobile showroom in Islamabad.
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The bureaucrats would not only get the cars at a deeply discounted price, they have also been allowed to pay the amount in monthly installments. Monetisation rules state, “the recovery of installments of the depreciated price of the vehicle shall be fixed at no less than Rs 25,000 per month.”
They can also hire official cars at a nominal rate of Rs3.6 per kilometre, according to the rules. While the government had initially announced that after trading in cash for cars, officials would be responsible for their own transport, the new rules states that “one 1300cc vehicle will be maintained for protocol/operational duties by the entitled officers.”
Interestingly, secretaries of the divisions and ministries have been tasked to certify that officials who have opted for monetisation policy are not using project or departmental vehicles. The secretaries themselves, however, have been found misusing three to four vehicles.


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ڪراچي (رپورٽ: اختيار کوکر) سنڌ حڪومت پنجاب جو ڊوميسائيل رکندڙ اڳوڻي وفاقي سيڪريٽري ۽ پنجاب پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن جي ميمبر همايون فرشوريءَ جي سنڌ جي ڪوٽا تي وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن جي گڏيل مقابلي واري امتحان ۾ ڪامياب قرار ڏنل ٻن ٻارن جي ڊوميسائيلن جي تصديق ڪرڻ کان انڪار ڪري ڇڏيو آهي ۽ وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن کي لکي ڇڏيو آهي ته سنڌ جي شهري علائقي جي ڊوميسائيل جي بنياد تي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن جي سال 2011ع واري امتحان ۾ ڪامياب قرار ڏنل مسعود همايون فرشوري ۽ مس ثنا همايون فرشوريءَ پاران ڪراچي جي جمع ڪرايل ڊوميسائيلن جي جاري ٿيڻ بابت ضلعي سينٽرل ڪراچيءَ جي ڊپٽي ڪمشنر غير اطمينان بخش رپورٽ ڏني آهي، ان ڪري انهن ٻنهي اميدوارن جي ڪراچيءَ وارن ڊوميسائيلن جي سنڌ حڪومت تصديق نٿي ڪري سگهي، 4 جنوري 2012ع تي صوبائي گهرو کاتي پاران وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن کي لکيل جوابي خط ۾ وڌيڪ چيو ويو آهي ته همايون فرشوريءَ جي ٻنهي ٻارن جي ڊوميسائيلن ۽ پي آر سيز جي تصديق ڪرڻ لاءِ بهتر ٿيندو ته ٻارن جي والد همايون فرشوريءَ جي ڊوميسائيل ۽ پي آر سي جي تصديق ڪئي وڃي ته ڪٿان جاري ٿيل آهن يا جيڪڏهن وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن چاهي ته ان معاملي جي وڌيڪ جاچ لاءِ صوبائي حڪومت ڪا جاچ ڪاميٽي جوڙي سگهي ٿي، جيڪا جاچ جي سلسلي ۾ اميدوارن ۽ انهن جي والد کي پڻ طلب ڪري ڪري سگهي ٿي. ياد رهي ته وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن 11 آڪٽوبر 2011ع تي سنڌ جي چيف سيڪريٽريءَ کي خط لکي چيو هو ته لاهور جي رهندڙ ۽ پرائمريءَ کان وٺي پوري تعليم لاهور ۾ حاصل ڪندڙ وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن جو سال 2011ع جو گڏيل مقابلي وارو امتحان پاس ڪندڙ ٻن اميدوارن مسعود همايون فرشوري ۽ ثنا همايون فرشوري امتحان لاءِ جمع ڪرايل پنهنجي درخواستن سان گڏ 10 مئي 2010ع تي جاري ٿيل قومي سڃاڻپ ڪارڊن ۾ دعويٰ ڪئي آهي ته هو لاهور ۾ ٿا رهن پر سندن مستقل پتو نارٿ ناظم آباد ڪراچي آهي. هنن ڊوميسائيل سرٽيفڪيٽ پڻ ڪراچيءَ جا پيش ڪيا آهن، جيڪي 12 ڊسمبر 2010ع تي جاري ٿيل آهن، جڏهن ته هنن جو والد وفاقي سيڪريٽري رهيو آهي ۽ هن وقت پنجاب حڪومت ۾ اهم عهدي تي مقرر ٿيل آهي، ان ڪري ٻنهي اميدوارن پاران ڪراچيءَ جا پيش ڪيل ڊوميسائيل مشڪوڪ بڻجي ويا آهن. سنڌ حڪومت جاچ ڪري انهن ڊوميسائيلن جي اصل حقيقت کان ڪميشن کي آگاهه ڪري. ذريعن موجب سنڌ حڪومت انهيءَ خط جي جواب ۾ وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن کي هڪ هفتو اڳ اماڻيل رپورٽ ۾ ٻڌايو آهي ته ضلعي سينٽرل ڪراچيءَ جي ڊپٽي ڪمشنر سنڌ حڪومت کي ڏنل پنهنجي رپورٽ ۾ ٻڌايو آهي ته ڊپٽي ڪمشنر جي آفيس رڪارڊ ۾ انهن ٻنهي ڊوميسائيلن ۽ ڊوميسائيلن ۾ ڏنل ايڊريس واري گهر جي ملڪيت جي وارثيءَ بابت ڪوبه رڪارڊ موجود ڪونهي، ڊي سي آفيس پاران اميدوارن جي هڪ ويجهي عزيز معين الدين روميءَ سان پڻ رابطو ڪري ڊوميسائيلن جي تصديق لاءِ ضروري رڪارڊ طلب ڪيو پر اميدوار به پنهنجي ڊوميسائيلن جي تصديق لاءِ ضروري رڪارڊ نه ڏئي سگهيا آهن، ان ڪري ڊي سي آفيس جو عملو ٻنهي ڊوميسائيلن جي جاري ٿيڻ جي تصديق نه ڪري سگهيو آهي، جنهن جي بنياد تي سنڌ حڪومت وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن کي مٿيون جواب اماڻي ڏنو آهي، همايون فرشوري گذريل 25 سالن دوران سنڌ ۾ ڪنهن به عهدي تي فائز ناهي رهيو ۽ نه ئي سندس خاندان ڪراچيءَ ۾ رهي ٿو پر پوءِ به سنڌ جي ڪوٽا تي وفاقي پبلڪ سروس ڪميشن جي گڏيل مقابلي واري امتحان ۾ سليڪٽ ٿيڻ لاءِ هنن رهائش جي مستقل ايڊريس ڪراچي واري ڄاڻائي ڪراچيءَ مان هڪ سال اڳ جاري ٿيل ڊوميسائيل جمع ڪرائي ڇڏيا آهن.
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Member of Punjab Public Service Commission, Mr. Humayun Farshori, obtained two fake domiciles from Sindh (U) for his son and daughter respectively. Both the beneficiaries qualified the written part but their candidature is withheld and might as well be cancelled due to their fake domiciles. They both have their entire education at Lahore whereas Mr. Humayun was never appointed at any post in Sindh. The case is under sub fpsc.

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Cold war’ between two top secretaries

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The federal capital these days is witnessing a cold war between two grade-22 secretaries — Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Khushnood Akhtar Lashari and his predecessor Nargis Sethi. Both play key roles in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat and are in good books of Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Officials privy to the development say the two hardly miss any chance to hit out at each other in public and in private.
Ms Sethi is currently working as cabinet and defence secretary.

Mr Lashari is also holding the additional charge of secretary of the establishment division. As PS to the premier the entire official business discharged by the prime minister is routed through him and as establishment division secretary he is responsible for postings and transfers of top officials.

Mr Lashari has replaced Ms Sethi as the prime minister’s principal secretary. She is now also looking after the health ministry which was previously under the control of Mr Lashari. It is primarily the health ministry over which the two have locked horns.

Ms Sethi held the powerful post of PSPM for nearly three years and quit it in January last year. Initially, she was comfortable with the choice of Mr Lashari as her successor. Both the cabinet division secretary and the PSPM have to work in close liaison because of the nature of their assignments and report directly to the prime minister.

At the time of Ms Sethi’s transfer she was given the additional charge of health ministry, but soon after the reshuffle relations between the two started deteriorating. Ms Sethi made some changes in the ministry which didn’t go down well with Mr Lashari.

The second blow came when investigations were ordered into the import of a drug allowed by Mr Lashari as secretary health.

The issue of import of Ephedrine, a controlled substance used by the pharmaceutical industry, is now being investigated by the FIA. The Senate’s standing committee on health has taken notice of the matter. The turf war intensified with the strikes by health employees in various government hospitals in Islamabad.

Last year, Ms Sethi as health secretary had introduced new health personnel structure (HPS) for medical professionals posted at the federal government hospitals.

The HPS was criticised by young doctors who said it would only benefit senior doctors. Mr Lashari also opposed the move.

The controversy led to strikes in hospitals and the government had to revert to old pay-scale system.

Former establishment secretary Sohail Ahmad, who was suspended by the prime minister in July last year apparently for following a Supreme Court order, was seen as a close friend of Ms Sethi.

Mr Lashari had shared bad blood with Mr Ahmad since the two worked under former chief minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi in Punjab.

Mr Ahmad was sacked for transferring an FIA official without consulting the prime minister before implementing the SC order.

If the grapevine is to be believed, Mr Lashari played an instrumental role in making up the mind of the prime minister to
suspend Mr Sohail. Since then Mr Lashari has been holding the charge of establishment division which many in the bureaucracy see as a unique arrangement because as establishment division secretary Mr Lashari forwards files relating to postings and transfers of bureaucrats to himself as PSPM for approval by the prime minister.

Sources close to Ms Sethi claim that her files relating to health sent for prime minister’s approval are delayed by Mr Lashari.

According to them, the two exchanged harsh words when Ms Sethi complained to the prime minister about the alleged delays.

They also have serious differences over the management of the polio cell. Mr Lashari as health secretary ran polio campaigns for many years and feels that he should have a say in the matter even though he is no longer part of the health ministry.
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Nargis Sethi faces tough questions in court

ISLAMABAD: Defence and Cabinet Secretary Nargis Sethi informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that no summary had been received from the law ministry about reopening graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari when she worked as principal secretary to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from Sept 23, 2010 to Jan 17, 2011.

Appearing before a seven-member bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk hearing a contempt of court case against Mr Gilani, she acknowledged that two summaries had been received, one on May 21 and the other on Sept 23, 2010.

According to the two summaries, then law minister Babar Awan and law secretary Pir Masud Chishti had informed the premier that there was no use of writing a letter to the Swiss authorities because the cases filed against President Zardari in Swiss courts had already been withdrawn.

The summaries also said that the court orders were not implementable. It was also pointed out that the president was supreme commander of the armed forces and part of parliament.

Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan, counsel for Mr Gilani, defended his client by saying that the prime minister had acted on the advice in accordance with the rules of business, but said the advice might be wrong.

At one stage Mr Ahsan asked Nargis Sethi what was the normal course of business if a federal secretary sought not to comply with the directions of the prime minister and she said he would have to revert back in the form of a summary.

When the court interrupted and observed rules of business were known to all, Mr Ahsan said the question was relevant as only the prime minister was being tried and no-one else.

The bench observed that Mr Ahsan could not cross-examine his own witness, but the counsel said he could prove that it was not a cross-examination. “In a cross-examination you ask questions which are responded merely by saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’.”

Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq raised an objection and said that Ms Sethi could testify only her own signature on the summaries and not of other persons. He said the summaries could be testified by the one who had prepared them.

Ms Sethi told the court that the prime minister’s engagements included everything listed in the rules of business and “much more than that”.

Mr Ahsan kept on posing questions and the court found many of them irrelevant. He, however, stressed that it was essential to bring certain things on record to make out a defence case.

Ms Sethi said the prime minister had a close relationship with parliament and met lawmakers on a daily basis and being the head of a coalition government he also held frequent meetings with allies. He also met dignitaries preceded by briefings.

She said the prime minister presided over 104 meetings of the cabinet, 10 meetings of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet and attended 90 per cent of the parliamentary sessions and proceeded on foreign visits for around 30 times during the time she worked with him.

Ms Sethi told the court that the apparent purpose of questions on the engagement of the prime minister was to show that he did not have time to minutely go through all the files reaching him. On an average, he sees 1,000 files in a month.

Ms Sethi said that during the period she served with the prime minister, he never demonstrated any bitterness or ill-will against the judge of an accountability court who had sentenced him for 10 years with a fine of Rs100 million. He spent five years in jail and the sentence was set aside in appeal.

She said the prime minister was in Bhutan when the promotion of 54 officers, including herself, was reverted by the Supreme Court and when she conveyed the message to him he said the court orders should be implemented without any demur.

Justice Ejaz Chaudhry pointed out that she (Nargis Sethi) was No. 54 on the seniority list but was promoted despite that. He remarked that there were a number of instances where the court orders were not implemented.

Ms Sethi said when Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was evicted from his official residence the prime minister intervened and restored his accommodation. On another occasion, the prime minister went uninvited to a farewell dinner for Justice Ramday to improve relations between the judiciary and the executive.

The hearing will continue on Thursday.

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CJ asked to take notice of civil servant slapping case.


ISLAMABAD: In the crowd of around three million generally indifferent, impotent and insensitive members of the civilian bureaucracy in Pakistan, a lone voice of a daring lady officer Anita Turab has approached the Chief Justice of Pakistan in the Waheeda Shah slapping case for a remedy to the humiliation that has hit the entire civil service of Pakistan, writes Ansar Abbasi.

Belonging to the District Management Group, the young lady officer, known for her commendable struggle to revive the impartiality and integrity of the civil service, Anita Turab has sought from the Chief Justice of Pakistan suo moto action against the Sindh government and the contesting candidate Waheeda Shah, who had slapped the election commission’s woman official inside a polling station in Tando Muhammad Khan.

“The petitioner opted recourse for the interference of the apex court as there was no other effective, efficacious and alternate remedy or institution to whom the petitioner could revert. Here the guilt extends far beyond Ms Shah and the humiliation impacts the complete civil services and law abiding citizens,” Anita conveyed to the CJP.

Instead of dealing with the Waheeda Shah incident in isolation, Anita expected from the top-most judge of the country to address the core issues pertaining to restoration of the dignity of the civil services and civil servants to enable them to play their part in the electoral process with utmost dignity and confidence. In this regard, she believes, ensuring security of tenure, apolitical placements and transparent promotions are a must.

“Extraneous influences, like political persuasions, threats, inducements and temptations must be eliminated. The incident of Feb 25 is a typical example of the present state of morale of the civil servants since shorn of any protection of law to ward off recourse to similar degradation,” she pleaded in her petition.

She added that “most civil servants wish to work in an environment where their self respect and dignity is not made vulnerable by all and sundry. A number of us feel committed to stand by a self-imposed code called ‘the Moral Revival’ being the flagship commitment to restore the lost dignity of the civil servants, to reclaim the classic independence of the institution through internal and external reforms,” her petition added.

“Moral Revival” is a recent struggle launched by Anita and a few dozen other young officers to restore the lost dignity of civil servants by ensuring their depoliticisation and high integrity. Anita is the same officer who had spearheaded a silent protest by wearing an arm-band against the unceremonious removal of former secretary establishment Suhail Ahmad for following the Supreme Court’s order. She was perhaps the first and the only officer working under the federal government (Interior Ministry) who has put up a brave face but still could not inspire the crowd of three million.

Anita, who is a shinning grade 19 officer, has also risked earning the wrath of the powerful and mighty by writing to the secretary establishment to seek security of term for the civil servants so that they could not be exploited and used as personal servants by the political masters. She also approached the chairman Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) for the Commission’s key role to ensure and protect merit-based selections and appointments in the civil services.

In the same spirit, the officer has now approached the Supreme Court for the sake of reclaiming the principles of good governance. She reminded the CJP that from time to time she had urged the relevant personnel management authorities, to seek corrective realignment of subjective practices in accordance with law, but the response has been feeble. “Nonetheless moral revival stands resolute,” added Anita.

She told the CJP that she seeks to confront political interference in administrative matters and pursue the ‘moral revival’ of the civil services in Pakistan. “Our resolve is expected to enable us in our individual and collective capacity to discharge official duties in accordance with law with requisite degree of dignity and demonstrated self-esteem in our respective institutions of the state,” she said, adding that she was deeply shocked and aggrieved by the failure of the government of Sindh and its law enforcement agencies to prevent public humiliation of one of our lady colleagues, temporarily assigned to assist the Election Commission of Pakistan engaged in the discharge its constitutional obligations regarding bye-elections for PS 53 Provincial Assembly of Sindh.

She added: “The above tragic incident is not an isolated occurrence where a potential lawmaker defied the rule of law and its due process by taking law into her own hands, disregarding Articles 4 and 5 obligations; it reflects a growing mindset in our polity against the civil servants as a class; in anticipation of her electoral victory, the accused acted as a self-appointed prosecutor, judge and executioner; however, realizing that her offence has been captured live, in a bid to derail the legal process, within 24 hours of the incident, the victim appears to have been forced towards apparent reconciliation as if the blatant trespass into ECP’s exclusive domain was a personal or tribal feud thereby making an absolute mockery of the Election Commission of Pakistan.”

Anita did not hesitate to say that the incident is also symptomatic of an all-pervasive and corrosive attitude amongst those with political connections as if they were above the law and the civil services must act as their subservient tool, controlled through arbitrary placements, transfers and promotions of favourites to function with partial or complete servitude, despite categorical declaration of relevant law by this Hon’ble Court [PLD 1987 SC 304 at page 307].

As a citizen of Pakistan, Ms Waheeda Shah was not only liable under the criminal and electoral laws, she may be stripped of any option of holding public office in future; all political parties should also be subjected to specify a ‘Code of Conduct’ for their general membership, under the overall regulatory control of the ECP, Anita demanded.

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( Anita Turab belongs to OMG 25th CTP not DMG)
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