Pakistan: a civil service in an obsolescing imperial tradition
- 1997
- p.321-64
- Dec
Pakistan inherited a civil service with a long and illustrious history, a product of two great imperial civilisations. The civil service is a cultural artifact which is now caught in transitional time. Pakistani leaders recognise this public issue. They have sought to introduce personnel reforms; the consequences have been uneven. This article addresses these and related aspects. It concludes that Pakistan must reinvent its constituent civil service. - Reproduced