Public Service Commission: A useless entity in Pakistan

Federal Public Service Commission and all the provincial service commissions of Pakistan are the most ineffective bodies and paving way for corruption in the recruitment process . The governments of different political parties have made it almost useless by inducting employees into the civil service on contract basis without the involvement of service commission which is the specialized body for recruiting to the civil service.

There are very few appointments made by the service commissions and that too with a very lengthy and slow process. They take at least one year in calling candidates for ability tests and interviews and the process ends at around two years. In the meantime most of the candidates surpass the age limit prescribed in the advertisement.

It is noteworthy that all the service commission members itself do not want to increase the efficiency due to their engagement with the political parties and "Yes Boss" attitude. Apart from this, it also results in opening a window of corruption and employment sell and buy situations.

Few days ago, the government of KPK has announced the upgradition of clerical staff from grade 14 to 16 and grade 16 to 17. This will result in having secretaries of clerical background in the near future that will certainly affect their decision making ability as they have been trained to be subordinates. This promotion will also destroy the future of the talented youth as very few places will be open for them when all the officer level position were occupied by the clerks. The decision will benefit about 83,000 clerks of the province under which the junior clerks of BPS-7 have been upgraded to BPS-9, senior clerks of BPS-9 to BS-14, assistants from BPS-11 to BPS-16 and superintendents from BS-16 to BS-17 and above. The government has missed the opportunity to induct fresh blood of 83000 young graduates in the civil service. In this connection, the provincial government will bear additional annual burden of Rs650 million, which has already been implemented from May 1, 2014.

Suggestions for making service commission effectiveness and efficiency

1. The time between the job advertisement and ability test/interview should not be more than three months
2. The government should increase the capacity so as to be able to counter the bulk recruitment
3. The government should ban all the ad hoc appointments 
4. All the promotions must be through ability tests, followed by training so as to find qualified people for the gazetted positions
5. Electronic system should be implemented by online application and notification to the candidates through email as the post office system is outdated and time consuming and mostly resulting in missing the test or interviews by the candidates and mobile SMS notification can also be very effective
6. For clerical promotions, army promotion process should be adopted where a Sepoy cannot go beyond Sobaidar Major. They should be open for competitive exams like armed forces; to be inducted as an officer up to some prescribed age limit
7. Government should ban all the conversion of contractual employees into permanent and this should only be done through a process in which they get some extra points of experience otherwise they should compete with the other candidates
8. Deputation service should be immediately abandoned as some of the teachers are serving on key administrative positions in the civil service

The above suggestion can make the service commissions of worth otherwise they are serving the different governments by allowing them to convert contractual into permanent without any process or ability check.

Shaukat Yousafzai: Prey to the Jehangiri Justice

Shaukat Yousafzai has been dismissed as Minister of Health due to the problems with PTI Central Secretary General Jehangir Tareen. Tareen has awarded some key contracts to his personal friends in the health ministry that made the Minister annoyed and agitated against illegal award of health contracts. The all powerful Jehangir Tareen has started struggle to kick him out but the PTI Chairman made Shaukat Minister of Industries but this did not satisfy Tareen until his dismissal from ministry yesterday due to poor performance.
In the meantime, Ziaullah Afridi is busy in making happy the CM and Jehangir Tareen by following instructions more than the obedience required. The mineral minister has made Tareen and khattak happy by giving some key contracts to their favorites and this has resulted in his promotion to the ministry from the advisory position.
Yasin Khalil was dropped out due to differences with the high ups of the PTI government. It is not that simple to fire a minister and an advisor for poor performance, it is indeed the problems with Tareen and Khattak for their insistence to give contracts to their favorites. These two dismissal may back fired to PTI as its party and ideological structure is very poor.

People in provincial metropolis are quite confused as the Tareen factor is affecting a lot functions in the government.  The PTI government is under strict control of Tareen Factor

Kashmir is the integral part of Pakistan: CoAS Gen Raheel Shareef

Kashmir is the integral part of Pakistan is the recent statement of General Raheel, the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan. His opinion is quite different to opinions of his predecessors Gen Kiyani and Musharaf.  the LoC was allowed to fenced during Musharraf's illegal regime, he was not only the President but a powerful CoAS. Sometimes they call it a liability and sometimes they call it SHAHRAG. We civilians are always with Kashmir and Kashmiris, but these people always define it differently at different point of times. Although this message was only to give a shut up call to 'the expected PM' Narindra Modi; upon his wicked intentions to conduct OBL like operation against Daud Ibrahim in Pakistan. The sentiments and statement of your respected brother is the sentiments and statement of every Pakistani, but i am always confused about our all powerful CoAS different definitions of the issue of Kashmir.