Lucrative post: PM picks Nasir Khosa for World Bank job
Development neither confirmed nor denied by PM’s secretary.
Nasir Khosa
ISLAMABAD:
The government has decided in principle to nominate senior civil servant Nasir Khosa as an executive director of the World Bank (WB), The Express Tribune learnt on Friday.
Khosa, who is currently serving as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will replace Raja Azeemul Haq, son-in-law of former premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. Haq resigned from the post in June this year after serving for some six months.
The government, however, has not yet advertised the lucrative post – which will provide around $225,000 per year, excluding perks and privileges – contrary to its promise to ‘advertise before filling them to maintain transparency’.
According to sources, Premier Nawaz was earlier considering the names of Punjab chief secretary Javed Aslam and Ghulam Dastgir along with Khosa for the post. They added that several other contenders were gunning for the post, but the prime minister instead picked his principal secretary, who is set to retire on September 14.
Prime minister’s political secretary Dr Asif Kirmani, however, neither confirmed nor denied Khosa’s nomination.
“I am not aware of any such development,” he said.
WB executive directors have a dual responsibility as representatives of the bank’s member country and as bank officials who represent the interests and concerns of those countries.
To get appointed to the post, Khosa will have to win endorsements from the six other countries apart from Pakistan – namely Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Ghana – which he will be representing as a WB executive director, said an official privy to developments.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2013.
The government has decided in principle to nominate senior civil servant Nasir Khosa as an executive director of the World Bank (WB), The Express Tribune learnt on Friday.
Khosa, who is currently serving as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, will replace Raja Azeemul Haq, son-in-law of former premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. Haq resigned from the post in June this year after serving for some six months.
The government, however, has not yet advertised the lucrative post – which will provide around $225,000 per year, excluding perks and privileges – contrary to its promise to ‘advertise before filling them to maintain transparency’.
According to sources, Premier Nawaz was earlier considering the names of Punjab chief secretary Javed Aslam and Ghulam Dastgir along with Khosa for the post. They added that several other contenders were gunning for the post, but the prime minister instead picked his principal secretary, who is set to retire on September 14.
Prime minister’s political secretary Dr Asif Kirmani, however, neither confirmed nor denied Khosa’s nomination.
“I am not aware of any such development,” he said.
WB executive directors have a dual responsibility as representatives of the bank’s member country and as bank officials who represent the interests and concerns of those countries.
To get appointed to the post, Khosa will have to win endorsements from the six other countries apart from Pakistan – namely Iran, Afghanistan, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Ghana – which he will be representing as a WB executive director, said an official privy to developments.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2013.