We need to appoint individuals trained for these specific fields from domestic or foreign universities of repute.
LAHORE: Our worsening security, sick economy and rampant corruption clearly point to failures of tools chosen to curtail these problems. Pakistan’s problem is that despite the worsening security situation, rising corruption and white collar crimes, we have failed to realise that both security and white collar crime investigation are specialised fields, where men who qualify to handle them, must acquire relevant academic qualifications, computer skills and familiarity with tools of forensic financial and crime investigation. Unfortunately, our law-enforcement agencies are run by men who having qualified for their posts through passing a general competitive examination, followed by training in the civil services academy and have then been assigned to one department or the other. Similarly, it is assumed that all retired/serving members of our armed forces are suitable to handle vital civil law-enforcement agencies, antiterrorism units, NADRA and can even serve as vice-chancellors of universities. We need to appoint individuals trained for these specific fields from domestic or foreign universities of repute, which offer specialised courses, rather than reducing these vital services, to serve as post-retirement rehabilitation welfare centres for our civil and khaki bureaucracy.
Malik Tariq Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.
