Bashir Aziz makes an interesting point but this is not a chicken or egg situation. Our bureaucracy is headlessly headstrong and arbitrary because of the severely curtailed vision in our leadership. This puts us in a GIGO situation and thus no surprise that every policy framework eventually starts to stink.
While I commend the insightful suggestions in this article, the critical discussion point remains one of implementation capacity and institutional willingness. Can Pakistan's current infrastructure and bureaucracy, which is demonstrably corrupted beyond any hope of reform and rendered utterly useless for effective policy execution, realistically execute policies, even those driven by highly competent appointees with genuine authority? Examples of successful, large-scale national fixes, such as the reforms that were seen in China and Cuba, demonstrate that foundational change often followed a profound systemic break. This raises a challenging but necessary question for our national dialogue; given the depth of the current mess and the compromised state of the delivery system, can Pakistan truly achieve the necessary reforms without first undertaking a fundamental, revolutionary restructuring of its governance?
Interesting diagnosis and remedial prescription but still challenging because our Universities are producing mindless quakes and money minters in the garb of researchers; result is ignorance of extreme level. As starter we need some basic changes in creation of our policy support and procurement system in every discipline. Our Universities and Research institutions need a kind of absolute revamping to be relevant at the minimum level.
very interesting. one of the core issue remains the institutional competence and integrity other than capacity as underscored by you. Governance with highly competitive top leadership is essential to wade through these tough economic conditions, would require patience, political will, consistency and determination.
Bashir Aziz makes an interesting point but this is not a chicken or egg situation. Our bureaucracy is headlessly headstrong and arbitrary because of the severely curtailed vision in our leadership. This puts us in a GIGO situation and thus no surprise that every policy framework eventually starts to stink.
While I commend the insightful suggestions in this article, the critical discussion point remains one of implementation capacity and institutional willingness. Can Pakistan's current infrastructure and bureaucracy, which is demonstrably corrupted beyond any hope of reform and rendered utterly useless for effective policy execution, realistically execute policies, even those driven by highly competent appointees with genuine authority? Examples of successful, large-scale national fixes, such as the reforms that were seen in China and Cuba, demonstrate that foundational change often followed a profound systemic break. This raises a challenging but necessary question for our national dialogue; given the depth of the current mess and the compromised state of the delivery system, can Pakistan truly achieve the necessary reforms without first undertaking a fundamental, revolutionary restructuring of its governance?
Interesting diagnosis and remedial prescription but still challenging because our Universities are producing mindless quakes and money minters in the garb of researchers; result is ignorance of extreme level. As starter we need some basic changes in creation of our policy support and procurement system in every discipline. Our Universities and Research institutions need a kind of absolute revamping to be relevant at the minimum level.
very interesting. one of the core issue remains the institutional competence and integrity other than capacity as underscored by you. Governance with highly competitive top leadership is essential to wade through these tough economic conditions, would require patience, political will, consistency and determination.
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