Whither public service?
IN the past two decades that the country has been in the midst of various economic and service delivery crises, nearly all solutions proposed by economists, policy professionals, and even…
Sartaj Aziz: public service embodied
Very few Pakistanis have made a name for their significant contributions on national and international fronts and are admired for their personal attributes. Sartaj Aziz was one of them –…
Bringing state back into public service
All these years it has been the working classes of the world who have been carrying on their fragile shoulders the ever mounting load of opulence of the rich. But…
Public service reforms — IV
In the spirit of e-governance, and interconnectedness through the use of IT, public service officers should have a ‘standardized online account.’ The account should be maintained by Nadra (National Database…
Public service reforms — IV
In the spirit of e-governance, and interconnectedness through the use of IT, public service officers should have a ‘standardized online account.’ The account should be maintained by Nadra (National Database…
Public service bias
INEQUALITY is one of the most significant challenges of modern times. Painstaking efforts by academics have documented the glaring income and wealth gap within and across countries. It is however…
Public service reforms — III
In order to allow for the transition to a unified single public service, those who are currently working as civil servants will be automatically admitted into the fast stream. The…
Public service reforms – I
In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant of the US appointed Dorman B. Eaton as the chair of the first Civil Service Commission, who later went to England in 1875 to…
Public service reforms — II
Parliaments at the federal and provincial levels should make laws pertaining to the formulation of respective recruitment commissions (indicated in part-I of this series of articles by this writer) so…
Reforming public service
A pyramid-like structure for the civil service -- more at the bottom, less at the top, on the pattern of armed forces -- is being talked about. The exact contours…
