Some of the key appointments made by the Government are certainly not based on jiyalaism. If it is not merit then personal friends are being obliged. How otherwise can somebody explain appointment of semi educated individuals to key diplomatic assignments and executive posts like CEO or MD of state owned corporations. Is there any dearth of highly educated persons in Pakistan?;
Or does the PPP not have many educated persons who are committed PPP loyalists. The only good appointment that has been made recently is that of Shaukat Tarin.
Late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a educated men, and many amongst his team were specialists in their field, most of them educated from top universities within Pakistan or the world. Benazir Bhutto the political heiress of Bhutto dynasty was an educated women and as young student at Oxford, she was elected as President Of Oxford students union.
The PPP has a long history of having very highly educated people, who were committed to ZAB's political school of thought. One fails to understand the logic why this political legacy of the Bhutto era has been discontinued today, when we live in an era where there is room only for specialists and the problems that confront us are very acute. Rationale thinking men who have studied in the various disciplines are the need of the hour.
Pakistan is a strange country, where graduation was made compulsory for members of parliament or the senate, a condition which was highly inappropriate, since the members of parliament are to represent thes people of Pakistan, for which they do not need a university degree.
However, in this same country cronies of the civil and military government, who were not even graduates had been appointed as Vice Chancellors of Universities and CEOs of state owned corporations. The sad reality is that this state of affairs continues even today. The net result of all this nepotism is breakdown of all institutions of the state, and financial collapse of once profitable government owned corporations