The common man was not amused with the news item published the other day in some newspapers that the government was toying with the idea to further bloat the KPK’ provincial cabinet by adding some more ministers in it. In the same manner, he wasn’t happy over another news item that many federal ministers are against the de- politicisation of bureaucracy.
An old age adage says one should cut cloth according to one’s size. Today we are facing a financial crunch. Our very survival is at stake because of wrong economic policies followed during the past two decades. Frankly speaking we require strict rationing in every sphere of life. Prudence demanded that the size of the federal and provincial cabinets should have been half the size of cabinets of former two governments. Unfortunately, on this score there seems to be no difference between the present and the former governments.
The founder of the nation had, in unambiguous words, directed the civil servants as back as in 1948,to abide by the law of the land. They are servants of the state only and not of the sitting governments which are transitory in nature as they would come and go. Unfortunately,the directives of the Quaid were more honoured in the breach than in the observance by the successive rulers in this country with rare abandon. A politicised bureaucracy loses respect and confidence of the common man .It becomes ineffective and is never in a position to maintain law and order. The rulers of this country tend to forget that a civil service which is recruited on merit is an asset to every sitting government as it is listened to with respect by the man in the street whereas a politicised civil service is a liability for them.
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