The issue was taken up by the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Division on Friday. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: The ‘forced’ retirement of dozens of senior bureaucrats is likely to be put on hold at least for the time being as the establishment division has expressed willingness to review the cases recommended for ‘directory retirement’ in the light of restraining orders of superior courts.
The issue was taken up by the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Division here on Friday.
The committee, headed by Senator Rana Maqbool Ahmad, examined the recent scrutiny of senior bureaucrats under the Civil Servants Directory Retirement Rules, 2020.
IN an article contributed to a publication of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Dr Ishrat Husain has thrown considerable light on the objectives and scope of the civil services reform undertaken by the present government. All this information needs to be shared with the citizens of Pakistan, the long-suffering victims of questionable governance, who have higher stakes in the reform process than any other party.
The public has reason to feel gratified at the statement that the rationale for the reform process “should be viewed in the context of the present malaise and weaknesses in our government structure, long-term vision of Pakistan, the external environment in which Pakistan will be operating as a country, the lessons learnt from other successful developing countries, the diagnostic studies including public opinion polls about government performance in Pakistan and the growing expectations of the public at large”.