Senator Farhatullah Babar on Monday said that appointment of non-cadre officers against cadre posts has given birth to resentment in the entire cadre especially in civil bureaucracy that needs to be given an end. Speaking on a motion on civil service reforms moved by Senator Saifullah Magsi, Babar said that the cadre post of DG of Military Lands and Cantonments which was a grade 21 post of the MLC cadre had been occupied for the past over 16 years by non-cadre officers that has demoralised the entire service.
He said that DG is BS 21 civilian cadre post of the ML&C Department and appointments to it are made by the Public Service Commission through CSS (central superior service) exams. "Since 1924 the post has been held by civilian officer of the department representing the federal government until General Musharraf soon after take over appointed a serving military officer to it in 1999," he lamented.