The prime minister has directed that the commission must change its hiring procedure for the rest of the 23 organisations. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD:
A high-level panel has been stripped of the power to headhunt 35 chiefs of public sector units after being initially mandated to pick heads of 58 state-controlled organisations.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has slashed the number of public sector organisations for which the panel was supposed to headhunt.
The Federal Commission for Selection of Heads of Public Sector Organisations was tasked to appoint heads of 58 organisations. However, now it will headhunt for only 23 organisations, while the rest have been reverted to the ministries they were previously working under, sources told Express News.
The commission has so far sent summaries to the prime minister for the hiring of heads of seven organisations. Only the PTA chief has been appointed on its recommendation. The rest of the summaries have been returned to the commission with the note that the people recommended for the top slots were not suitable and that none of them meet even the minimum requirement for the positions.
The prime minister has directed that the commission must change its hiring procedure for the rest of the 23 organisations. It has also been instructed to directly contact and seek applications from the most eligible candidates.
The organisations which have been returned to their relevant ministries include Pakistan International Airlines (Aviation Division), Pakistan Television Corporation (Ministry of Information and Broadcasting), NICL, Pakistan Re-insurance Company and Pakistan Horticultural Development and Export Company (Ministry of Commerce), Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, Sui Southern and Sui Northern, PPL, Thar Coal Mining, National Refinery, Lakhra Coal Development, Pakistan Mineral Development, Pakistan State Oil, Pak Arab Refinery, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources), Pakistan Steel Mills, National Fertiliser Corporation, Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation, State Engineering Corporation, National Fertilisers Marketing, Utility Stores, (Ministry of Industries and Production), Pasco (Ministry of National Food Security), National Construction Company (Ministry of Housing), Pakistan Software Export Board and Telephone Industries (Ministry of IT), PTDC (Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination), Rail Corp (Ministry of Railways), National Power Construction Corporation, Nespak, Pepco and National Transmission and Despatch Company (Ministry for Water and Power).
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2014.
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I don't believe this. Selection criteria is straightforward. One must be of Kashmiri origin, to qualify as educated and loyal to the country. Rest, including myself are dunderheads, even if we earned degrees from Cambridge and Oxford. This exercise is a waste of time. More fodder for Babus and the Establishment to make hay.