If any minister has to lose his job because of poor performance, I think the finance minister should go first
KARACHI: Regarding the letter “Performance evaluation of ministers” by Afia Malik published in The Express Tribune on October 30, it seems to me that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his party has failed to understand what their problem is or that they are not prepared to change their royal Mughal style in which they have been conducting their rule so far. Asking the ministers to come with a self-written report, which would for all intents and purposes involve a lot of self-praise, is yet another cruel joke with the nation, which thought for 10 long weeks that the dharnas would have changed something at least.
If any minister has to lose his job because of poor performance, I think the finance minister should go first for the financial ills that have made the lives of common people miserable. Ishaq Dar has harped to the tunes of the IMF and the World Bank, showing the beggar’s bowl, while billions of dollars are reported to have been misappropriated or syphoned off in the name of project-funding of shady projects that will never be finished. But there is scant hope that any such initiative would be taken seriously. Nawaz Sharif has not exactly asked for a performance appraisal through an independent inquiry; this performance appraisal will be done through a weak system. All he intends is to make an appearance of taking some sort of action, reshuffle the cabinet and otherwise, proceed as before.
Ali Ashraf Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2014.
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