An artical is todays papers , "the nation".<br />
<br />
saqib zafar<br />
<br />
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<br />
<b>Fall of the DMG empire</b><br />
<br />
<br />
IFTEKHAR A. KHAN<br />
<br />
An unsavoury event at Excise and Taxation check post at river Indus in <br />
Attock reveals as to who would steal the show henceforth - the sharpshooters <br />
in police uniform or the DMG boys. By a friendly arrangement, police had <br />
swapped duties with Excise and Taxation gurus when a DMG official decided to <br />
check them. Considering it a trespass in their private domain, the police <br />
handcuffed and tortured the official causing him physical injuries.<br />
The treatment meted out to an elite member of the DMG cabal is not only <br />
ill-omened, it does not auger well for the future of the club. Its members, <br />
under the stewardship of a provincial secretary, lost no time in staging a <br />
protest to safeguard their high stakes in the system. DMG, once the shiny <br />
stars of the ruling galaxy, will not take it lying down is obvious. But the <br />
public know that the boys are fighting a rearguard action; they have little <br />
choice but to relinquish their time-honoured hold on power as the devolution <br />
and grass-root affair so ordain.<br />
Notwithstanding the power struggle between police and the DMG, a display of <br />
muscle flexing between two giants, the public is the grass they are likely <br />
to trample. Onlookers feel the police are most likely to triumph and will <br />
have the last laugh, a hyena-like. But why is there a regular show of <br />
strength between various public service departments to assert authority? Is <br />
it love of public service or that more power and authority offer better <br />
prospects of self-aggrandisement? Both the DMG and police whose members in <br />
the upper stratum are selected through a state held examination consider <br />
themselves a class cut above the rest.<br />
A common perception holds that it is a matter of luck and right connections <br />
more than the merit by which the elite members of the services are selected. <br />
For instance, sons and sons-in-law of the senior civil servants are the best <br />
among the aspirants as if the DMG streak is genetic. Commonly understood it <br />
is that if those who pass the exam and qualify at the top go through the <br />
similar tests again, they might find themselves in different service <br />
carders, some may fail altogether. It speaks for the reliability of the <br />
selection procedures.<br />
So far, the influential among the judiciary, armed forces, and politicians, <br />
through backstairs pedalling, managed to induct their kith and kin into the <br />
public service. DMG was the most sought after preserve but not anymore for <br />
which the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) is to blame. NRB changed the <br />
designation of the colonial 鈥楽aab鈥
<br />
saqib zafar<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Fall of the DMG empire</b><br />
<br />
<br />
IFTEKHAR A. KHAN<br />
<br />
An unsavoury event at Excise and Taxation check post at river Indus in <br />
Attock reveals as to who would steal the show henceforth - the sharpshooters <br />
in police uniform or the DMG boys. By a friendly arrangement, police had <br />
swapped duties with Excise and Taxation gurus when a DMG official decided to <br />
check them. Considering it a trespass in their private domain, the police <br />
handcuffed and tortured the official causing him physical injuries.<br />
The treatment meted out to an elite member of the DMG cabal is not only <br />
ill-omened, it does not auger well for the future of the club. Its members, <br />
under the stewardship of a provincial secretary, lost no time in staging a <br />
protest to safeguard their high stakes in the system. DMG, once the shiny <br />
stars of the ruling galaxy, will not take it lying down is obvious. But the <br />
public know that the boys are fighting a rearguard action; they have little <br />
choice but to relinquish their time-honoured hold on power as the devolution <br />
and grass-root affair so ordain.<br />
Notwithstanding the power struggle between police and the DMG, a display of <br />
muscle flexing between two giants, the public is the grass they are likely <br />
to trample. Onlookers feel the police are most likely to triumph and will <br />
have the last laugh, a hyena-like. But why is there a regular show of <br />
strength between various public service departments to assert authority? Is <br />
it love of public service or that more power and authority offer better <br />
prospects of self-aggrandisement? Both the DMG and police whose members in <br />
the upper stratum are selected through a state held examination consider <br />
themselves a class cut above the rest.<br />
A common perception holds that it is a matter of luck and right connections <br />
more than the merit by which the elite members of the services are selected. <br />
For instance, sons and sons-in-law of the senior civil servants are the best <br />
among the aspirants as if the DMG streak is genetic. Commonly understood it <br />
is that if those who pass the exam and qualify at the top go through the <br />
similar tests again, they might find themselves in different service <br />
carders, some may fail altogether. It speaks for the reliability of the <br />
selection procedures.<br />
So far, the influential among the judiciary, armed forces, and politicians, <br />
through backstairs pedalling, managed to induct their kith and kin into the <br />
public service. DMG was the most sought after preserve but not anymore for <br />
which the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) is to blame. NRB changed the <br />
designation of the colonial 鈥楽aab鈥