Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Bureaucracy did not implement as many as 400 orders and directives issued by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while one out of many orders issued by President Mamnoon Hussain was implemented.

It has been disclosed in the Cabinet Division’s latest report regarding orders and directives issued during July 2014 to June 2015.

The federal cabinet took 73 decisions and directed the ministries and departments concerned to implement them, but the bureaucracy implemented only 36 of them.

Mamnoon issued 46 orders, but only one was implemented, the report says.

Nawaz formed a committee for civil service reforms and he chaired several meetings to make the bureaucracy accountable in front of parliament, but the report shows the bureaucracy as the real boss. Nawaz issued 446 orders to various ministries, divisions and departments but only 41 were implemented.

He also established a monitoring wing for the implementation of his directives but the wing was not given importance by the bureaucracy. The wing wrote letters to the ministries and departments concerned to timely implement the PM’s directives, but to no avail.

On Friday, Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law Captain Safdar had alleged that the PM’s personal secretary was calling the shots in matters relating to promotion of senior bureaucrats and called for an end to the practice.

Lawmakers from both benches in the National Assembly supported his views and expressed lack of confidence in the PM’s Office. They said that issues like promotion of bureaucrats should be dealt with by parliament and not by an individual.

The MNAs termed the bureaucracy “an unbridled horse” and said it paid no heed to the complaints lodged by the parliamentarians regarding their constituencies.

In a call-attention notice, Safdar criticised the PM’s Office and particularly the prime minister’s personal secretary, Fawad Hassan Fawad.

According to him, Fawad was taking decisions about promotion of government officers of BPS-20 and above on the basis of his own liking.

“An individual is calling the shots and making promotions on the basis of his own desires,” he said.