SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Pakistan society is marred with rampant nepotism and corruption and most unfortunate thing is that state and legislator who are elected to control it, themselves involved from head to toe in corruption in nepotism. Leave aside Legislator the top slot of Pakistan, The prime Minister himself is fully immersed in menace of nepotism. No country would be corruption free certainly but every country protects some institutions from this menace but in Pakistan there is no institution that is not eroded by this cancer. Foreign office is one of the key departments to run the country’s affairs and build the image of country across the globe and for this task definitely the basic requirement is competency and capability but unfortunately it does not happen at all. Incompetent and incapable people are given top posts in foreign services under political influence. In another such derogatory move government is planning to hand a key post in Canada to a non-career diplomat. It is just tantamount to put country’s interests aside and appease your cronies for vested interests. “Diplomats familiar with the development revealed that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has finalised the name of Dr Yousaf Junaid for a key diplomatic assignment in Pakistan’s High Commission in Canada without properly observing Foreign Service rules. Dr Junaid, an officer from the Commerce and Trade” added Tribune.
According to some sources, a senior diplomat in the Foreign Office recalled that the postings of non-career diplomats, especially ones without any training in diplomacy, are a cause of considerable consternation among Foreign Service officers. Senior diplomat Adnan Randhawa, who was posted in China, has already resigned because of a discriminatory attitude against him and what he saw as flawed foreign policy decisions of the government, he said.
Indeed it is worst example of nepotism. When the premier of a country is not sincere with it, no one can save it from disaster.
pakistan.shafaqna.com
