the judiciary to focus on non-compoundable and other serious offences. But practically nothing happened on ground as everything in these areas remains in proposal stage.
A few months back a Tax Reforms Commission was constituted to facilitate the general public about the taxation issues and to upgrade the current taxation system. In August 2014, the Nawaz Sharif government constituted a parliamentary committee on electoral reforms but without any concrete outcome as yet.
Likewise, no initiative has been taken to de-politicise the administrative machinery of the country and make it responsive to the masses’ problem. There is also complete silence as yet on the overhauling of the Accountability Commission, the FIA and the provincial anti-corruption departments for the purpose of ensuring their effectiveness and neutrality. Devolution and empowerment of the local governments also continue to be a far cry.
Only recently, the minister for planning commission Ahsan Iqbal was reportedly assigned to look into the civil service reforms.Similarly the government gave cold shoulder to some major “advice” and “recommendations” of the Federal Public Service Commission to reform the recruitment system, improve the quality of human resource, professionalise the civil service and to make FPSC more effective through empowerment and autonomy.
The FPSC had sought reforms in the promotion policy, improvement in the professional qualification for the CSS competitive exam, introduction of screening test for the CSS candidates, improved mechanism for the promotion exam of Section Officers, reforming the CSS competitive exam, etc. However, none of these got the approval of the government.
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