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The newly-installed PTI government has constituted a task force on civil-service reforms. Over the years our governments have tried a number of times to reform the civil service but for various reasons, as eloquently articulated in this newspaper by Mosharraf Zaidi a few weeks ago, all previous efforts have failed. Most of the failures were not due to a lack of ideas or recommendations, but rather due to an inability to implement reforms. And this inability sprang from reluctance on the part of the bureaucracy to accept reforms. This time the civil service reform task force has been set up under Dr Ishrat Husain, an adviser to the PM and a former State Bank governor. Dr Ishrat is eminently qualified to head this committee, having written extensively on the subject, and he has selected a team of competent people so we can hope for recommendations that are both realistic and far-reaching. I say realistic here because recommendations that are not owned by the bureaucracy will have no chance of being implemented. Reforms that are too far-reaching or too disruptive may just be, as they were in the past, dead-on-arrival.

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10-26-2018

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