I have always had great regard for the bureaucrats of Pakistan. It is they I believe that have command of all that occurs in and around us, and it is they really that run this immense operation of managing that country.
I have often wondered who it is that dictates the think tank of the nation - its policies, its international views, its national views and so many other matters ..
It is a most intricate process and one that requires huge amounts of inputs from learned men and women of this country. Inputs that shall be converted to law for the nation to become law abiding and correct in its being.
The think tank of the country can come from any source, but the job of the bureaucrat is one that requires immense skill and accumen. Which is why my admiration for them.
At times when I look and listen officers and administrators I am in awe of the information and procedure that they need to execute, so this unique country can be on some path of glory…
I have discovered that there is no think tank so to say, but there are inputs that keep coming in from different departments, and reforms keep being instituted. I am intrigued as to where the initial basics of this vast management comes from, and of course it is well known that it was the British that made the laws and administrative services which serve us now in good stead.
On further inquiry, I was told that the administrative services, commonly known as the Civil Service of Pakistan during the time of the British, were indeed the very first institution that the British designed, and that it was designed for rule over at that time India. There never was a concept of Civil Services before. The Civil services a most prestigious vocation was the first to be introduced in India. Britain never had any concept of the Civil Services.
And … what is quite amazing is that some of the rules and regulations that were designed by the British still remain … forgotten perhaps or with some motive I would imagine.
The Police has its own book of reference with its law and its orders. But what some of the officers and the other important connected with this force have noticed that the laws and the implementations of it, are present from the time of the British Colonial rule, when the country and the law and order entities were considered to be associated with a Police State. But Pakistan is no longer one now, and no effort has been made to bring about changes and a fresh thought in the due process of law as far as the Police is concerned…
In fact one incident that was narrated to me was of an act in the rule book for the Police, which stated that the final authority in a particular judgement of law would rest with the British head of state of that particular province !! That rule still remains .. or was remaining till recently, when the names underwent a change …
On an aside though .. I see on Tv whenever they catch a culprit or perpetrator of a crime, they cover his or her face with a cloth, and personally guide him in and out of vans and residences when taken to court or to the prison. Why ?
Now they have very sophisticated face covers, black in color - what else would they be - with two holes to allow the eyes to be seen or rather for the convicted to see where they are going !! To me they all looked like the black hooded version of the KKK - the Ku Klux Klan, that extreme right winged organisation in the US .. !!
And why when they, the Police in Pakistan, lead a convicted person physically, like a walk to prison, a walk to a station … do they hold his or her hand in their hands. Its like the two were out for a little more than a friendly stroll !!
Intrigues me …
But …
DiL.
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