The Sindh government has reportedly banned government servants from appearing on TV or giving statements in the newspapers.
Time was when no government servant could participate in any talk show in electronic media nor write any article for newspapers without prior approval of head of his department. Rules on the subject exist which were, however, honoured more in the breach than in their observance
A government servant can enter the field of politics only after two years of his retirement. In the past every Tom, Dick and Harry was not allowed to make comments about any happening on the law and order front and it was only the Home Secretary of the province who used to issue a Press Note in case of any need as law and order is the provincial subject.
The IG Police Sindh has taken exception the other day over transfer of his two senior officers from the province without anybody taking him into confidence. His plea was that they were engaged in a very useful job and their sudden transfer has affected his chain of command as well as the morale of the police force. It is a pity that our rulers have not learnt from experience and they continue to interfere in the working of the law and order enforcing agencies as a result of which the law and order situation in the country is going from bad to worse every day. Every government department has been politicised, barring of course the armed forces.
Isn’t it pitiable that after the recent attack of the doctors on hospital in Lahore the local police was so scared and demoralised that Rangers had to be deployed for their protection. Such a thing had never happened before in the history of this country since its creation in 1947.
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