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Pakistan ambassador to France, Mr Jehanzeb Khan, is under the spot light of media for being the first ever DMG officer to be made Ambassador of Pakistan to France. The Foreign Office group is opposing this appointment since they consider it a DMG takeover of Foreign Services department. While the DMG side thinks that they are the perfect lot who are more competent then their colleagues in Foreign Services and hence the best officers should be assigned to the role instead of the people serving in the Foreign Services. For the convenience of our readers, i will highlight that DMG and Foreign Services are two different fields chosen by the candidates while applying for CSS exam. DMG is involved with the management of districts while the Foreign Services personnel are involved with managing our foreign relations and hence both are two totally different fields and have nothing in common. Today two different stories emergedin The News, one by the DMG officer which was published by Ansar Abbassi and the other story is published by Marianna Babar about the possible mutiny in Foreign Services group agaisnt the appointment of Jehanzeb Khan. I will first look into the statement of DMG officers as narrated by Ansar Abbassi. You can find the full story by clicking here. In the article the DMG officer which came in defence of the appointment of Jehanzeb Khan presented his case on the basis of merit. According to him, Jehanzeb Khan is more competent then any person in the whole Foreign Services Group of Pakistan and this is one big reason that Jehanzeb Khan, a DMG officer, should lead the Pakistan Embassy in France. He further challenges the achievements of the Foreign Services Group for the last 60 years. Not only this, he take the liberty of presenting another argument that Jehanzeb Khan is a Pashtun (I am also Pashtun) and that is one strong credential that he can explain the War on Terror in a better manner to the French people and their government. Now here is what i think as a layman! DMG Officers don’t believe in specializations and hence they believe a person managing a district can manage country foreign policy and defend the policies of its government in Foreign capitals. I wonder if that is the case, DMG officers will surely go to a Cardiologist when they find their eye sight weak and they go to Dentists when they have pain in their leg because a competent doctor is all that matters and not his area of specilization. Coming to second point about the achievements of Foreign Services Group for the past 60 years? I wonder how the DMG group will narrate their own achievements? Siding with the establishment and looting the very public which they are suppose to help? Pakistan cities are the worst example of management. You don’t see any sign of management at all. In sixty years of existence, they have not yet gone over their mental slavery. DMG officers are famous for being the most corrupt lot in Pakistan since they control the most vital spheres of country life. Can they present one single achievement of this group to us (the people of Pakistan?). In fact DMG group is the white elephant and a burden on the economy of Pakistan with not a single achievement except for increasing their personnel wealth and status. They are the people who have made sure that the British system remain intact and that our people are kept slaves in one form or another. Coming to the last point of Jehanzeb Khan being a Pashtun, i wonder if that is how we choose our ambassadors? Or is that the people who are from other Provinces of Pakistan have never heard of Taliban or the crises through which NWFP is passing through? I must mention here that one of the finest police officer of NWFP was from Lahore, Punjab and he knew the province and its people far better then any other Pashtun Police Officer. So this stupid argument stands no ground at all. The very argument make it crystal clear to our readers about the possible mental calibre of our DMG officers. I am lucky i abandoned the idea of applying to CSS exam. I would have preferred to resign rather then working between such corrupt and incompetent baboos of British System of Slavery dubbed at DMG Officers. The other article presented by Marianna Babar touches upon the possible signs of mutiny in the Foreign Services Group officers, who have decided not to handle any single official communication with their French embassy, if Jehanzeb Khan was given the top slot. They have also shared few insider stories of huge scams and corruptions done by some influential Pakistanis in France. The News claims that they are verifying the story before sharing it with the readers. We will be eagerly looking forward to it. In the mean while, our readers should keep in mind the recent accusations that have emerged in France by the French Opposition leaders that the 11 French engineers killed in Karachi might be the possible victims of a kick backs taken by both Pakistani and French leaders. The story has yet to be investigated and hence Pakistan Embassy in France would require a person who can handle the case in the desired manner. The possible people involved in Pakistan will try their best to appoint their own favourites to help them in clearing the matter. Therefore, the appointment of Jehanzeb Khan has also turned many eyes as they viewed him a pawn of influential people sitting in Islamabad. Lets see how things turn out! Related Articles |
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almost all pakistani officers are corrupt without any exception. had they done anything for their conrntry the country woud not have been suffering from plethora of ailments. all bureaucrates with rere exceotion are corrupt, psycho, and complex stricken.
A few days ago, I sent the following letter/email to some concerned.
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Recipients of this email are:
1. Ansar Abbasi, investigation desk, The News.
Copies to:
2. The President of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, via Mr. M. Salman Faruqui, Secretary General to the President.
3. Farhat ullah Babar, Spokesperson to the President.
4. The Prime Minister of Pakistan , Yusuf Raza Gillani, via Mrs. Nargis Sethi, Acting Principal Secretary to the PM.
5. Dr. Shahzad Qaiser, Special Secretary to the PM.
6. Mr. S.M.Imran Gardezi, Press Secretary to the PM.
7. Asif Ezdi, the former ambassador of Pakistan
8. The news desk, The News, Lahore and Rawalpindi .
9. Myself.
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Subject: Appointment of a DMG officer for the post of Pakistan’s Ambassador to France .
Dear Ansar Abbasi,
Please refer to the news item ‘A square peg in a round hole’ published under your name in the daily, The News, on Saturday (June 27, 2009). []
In the said news item, you highlighted two cases for widespread censure: first, appointment of a DMG officer, Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan, for the post of an ambassador of Pakistan to France , and secondly, appointment of Kaleem Imam for the post of the IG Police of Islamabad . This letter of mine pertains to the first case.
The retired ambassador have been giving vent to their feelings by condemning the decision that may deprive an officer of the Foreign Service of Pakistan (FSP) from getting that coveted post. The retired ambassadors have also been flooding every English daily of Pakistan with their fuming comments against the appointment by writing columns. They are also very vocal at the TV talk shows on the issue. But the point is that they had been doing that before your said news item published in the daily. That was how I read and heard the matter at least one day before your news item published in The News.
I do not know why exactly you reported the news item despite the fact that you belonged to the investigation section of The News, despite the fact that the second case related to Kaleem Imam was hardly 1/4th of your news item, and despite the fact that the matter was known to the people and the news item was stale. Certainly, the main thrust of your news item was the first case related to the Foreign Office. This case could have been reported by any reporter; there was no investigation required and, as apparent, you did not do any investigation. Of course, it was not a Farah Dogar case.
Prima facie, it seems that you tried to please the Foreign Office and the ambassadors (both serving and retired) by reporting a fusty news item, as if you had thoroughly investigated that. In fact, you did not do that. I can also assume that you could be short of a story to make your presence felt around.
Nevertheless, I also understand that you, probably, have never been to a foreign country where these ambassadors work. The second possibility may be that you might have been to a foreign country but did not come across any problem that could compel you to knock at the door of an embassy to seek help. In either case, the resultant ignorance of yours has brought you to side with the stance of the Foreign Service.
I have been to the foreign countries and I know well how these ambassadors work and behave with the Pakistanis visiting or staying abroad legally. In 2002, I was in Berlin , Germany , to undertake research for the PhD studies at the German Arthritis Research Centre (DRFZ). Mr Asif Ezdi was the Ambassador of Pakistan there. I faced a serious problem when I was expelled from the DRFZ without any reason and the institute denied me subsequently any certificate of experience. Several times, I knocked at the door of the embassy but could not find even one appointment with the ambassador. At last, on 08.07.03, I got the first (and last) appointment at 10:00 am with the Ambassador, Asif Ezdi. The meeting lasted for fifteen to twenty minutes.
I gathered that Asif Ezdi had mastered the diplomatic skill of saying ‘no’ to all of my requests for help. He was adroit at how to evade questions and avoid making commitments. He convinced me meticulously that he was the most helpless and powerless Pakistani in Germany with whom I should sympathise necessarily. He was so shameless that he said bluntly that he could in no way help me. Once I asked him to speak to the German government officials for once at least (when he was not ready to speak to the authorities of the institute, DRFZ) but he said without hesitation that the Germans would not listen to him. My two letters dated 08.07.03 and 10.07.03 (those were duly received in the embassy) would be lying in the dusty storeroom of the embassy (or might have been consigned to the waste bin). (I also remember one or two more letters sent by the registered post to the embassy addressed to the ambassador). No one from the embassy even bothered to respond to any of my letters. Above all, during the meeting, Mr Ezdi even did not bother to look at the documents I took along to show him.
Such an unabashed creature was called the Ambassador of Pakistan. Now, you can find him writing columns in your daily speaking lofty about the Pakistanis and their interests as if he were the main custodian of the Pakistani rights. Today, on July 01, 2009, his column, ‘Rethinking the composite dialogue,’ has been published in The News in which he has lamented how the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, failed to highlight the Kashmir issue first time in the history of Pakistan in the recent Zardari-Manmohan Singh talks at Yekaterinburg, Russia, in the mid of June, after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit that both attended as observers. [] [http://www.thenews.com.pk/arc_default.asp]
Mr Ezdi is quick and smart enough to pin point the weakness in the talk and has written a full fledge column to become the flag-career of the Kashmir cause. Nevertheless, Mr Ezdi has deliberately overlooked that the talks were being held in the post-Bombay bombing scenario and that the talks were meant to restart the stalled composite dialogue between the two nuclear neighbours: the talks were more to exchange pleasantries than anything else to create a room for re-initiation of the composite dialogue.
Having watched working of the officials of the Foreign Office, I think that the officers from outside the FSP like the DMG officers should be given chances to represent Pakistan . If an ambassador has attended diplomatic courses and learnt foreign languages, what is the use of those if the ambassador shirks his responsibilities of helping the Pakistani and do not bring into practice the diplomatic skills to solve problems of the Pakistanis abroad. For instance, in my case, when Mr Ezdi did not even bother to speak to his German counterparts, what was the use of the German language which he had mastered over the years? Similarly, in my case, if Mr Ezdi could not even suggest me what to do next and how to tackle the problem, what was the advantage of his diplomatic skills and what not to me, or to other Pakistanis for that matter? It means all the money and resources spent on his training went straight to the rubbish bin.
It is pity that our ambassadors (a product of the Foreign Office) prefer to sit in their cosy offices, display colourful neckties, travel in the costly cars (bearing national flag), and charge salary (and other perquisites) in the foreign currencies but do practically nothing for the Pakistanis. At least, my case speaks for that.
You may argue that this type of attitude can also be shown by a DMG officer appointed as an ambassador to Germany . You may be right but I think that the ambassadors do not pay heed to the problems of the Pakistani because no one complains against them afterwards. No Pakistani knows where and when to hold an ambassador accountable. Have you heard any ambassador attending a court in Pakistan replying to the allegations levelled at him by any Pakistani? Secondly, even if a complaint is lodged, the whole Foreign Office sides with the ambassador considering it a matter of institutional honour. That is the strength of these ambassadors. On the contrary, in the same setting, a DMG officer would be fearful of any complaint against him that may hold potential to send him back to his parent department. Secondly, the fear of underperformance would keep on menacing him to improve his performance. For instance, in 2002, in Berlin , had there been a DMG officer working as an ambassador (instead of Mr Ezdi, a career diplomat), firstly, he would have helped me as the DMG officers are reputed to help the citizens. Secondly, if the DMG officer (working as an ambassador) would not have helped me, I could have lodged a complaint against him to the Foreign Office and the Office would have immediately made the DMG officer answerable – though in an attempt to get rid of him and prove him and his cadre a failure in the diplomatic domain. Thirdly, I would have held the DMG officer (working as an ambassador) accountable in the court of law and the Foreign Office would not have come to defend him to preserve institutional prestige.
That is why, I think and propose that the DMG officers should be inducted into the Foreign Service and that the present decision to send (or appoint) a DMG officer for the post of the Ambassador to France should not be annulled. If the problem is with the grade of the DMG officer, services of some other DMG officer should be hired to overcome that problem. The DMG officers may be given short courses in learning diplomatic skills and handlings diplomatic affairs before making them take over the charge of the ambassadors. Their inclusion will not only bring diversity to the Foreign Service but also help the career diplomats of the Foreign Service improve themselves after getting enlightened on the strength and weaknesses of the DMG officers. A healthy competition at the high official level will definitely improve the Foreign Service and will bring fruits to the Pakistanis stranded abroad. I also request you to support inclusion and working of the DMG officers as ambassadors of Pakistan .
Regards,
Yours sincerely, Dated: 01.07.09
Dr Qaisar Rashid
2-B, Ashrafia Park
Ferozepur Road
Lahore .
Tel: 042-5063694
Cell: 0322-4535300
Even if Dr Qaisar Rashid’s episod with Amb Ezdi is accepted, which seems highly unlikely what it has to do with foreign service and DMG. Oversimplification and generalisation is dangerous-at least a PhD should know it. Why Dr. Qaisar is supporting DMG only…it is telling. Why not philanthropists, academics, journalists (they would have understood him better), Police officer, Custom, income tax, commerce and trade? There are fine people in each of these groups. Why foreign Service is the only arena for healthy competition?
Come on people don’t ride on the bandwagon by SELLING your grievances.
Even if Dr. Qaiser’s episode is accepted, which is highly unlikley, what it has to do with DMG and the Foreign Service. Why only Foreign Service is selected for diversification and enrichment? Affairs are worse at home too….last two paragraphs are answer taht is is a mere promotion.
Abrar Hashmi
Mob: +61 433 669499
Dear Abrar Hashmi,
You need to read my letter again.
Regards,
Dr.Qaisar Rashid’s views on FSP or DMG apart I find his story about expulsion from German Arthritis Research Centre (DRFZ) simply breathtaking and so hard to believe..So he wants us to believe that he was expelled for no reason…Just like that one fine morning he was asked to pack up and leave…He wants us to believe this..Vow…I studied for two years in London and in between spent two months at the University of Heidelberg and while I cannot discount issues of personal biases but summary expulsion of a student/researcher is impossible to conceive (unless it involves sexual harassment, criminal activity or plagiarism)..Even if expulsion there r multiple channels of redress available….
And guys let us be fair once Dr. sahib was shown the door by the Institute (after completing there due processes) what can ambassador do to influence the Institute…The academic/research institutes guard their independence zealously…I can only characterize Dr sahib’s anger as senseless rage or jealousy…But it really stretches the truth
Well, who should be the ambassador? I do not have a firm opinion but some semblence of seniority competence need to prevail…
Dear Nafees Arshad,
I have just visited and found your message posted.
By spending two months at a German university you think you came to know everything? You need to get your head examined.
How do you know that the due process to expel from me, a researcher, from the DRFZ was complete?
When the ambassador, Asif Ezdi, did not listen to me and did not read the documents even, how could he conclude that the DRFZ was right to expel me?
By the way, what is your relationship with Asif Ezdi?
If the DRFZ was right, then why did it issue three faulty certificates each time rectifying the mistakes I used to point out? What should I do with those research certificates?
Regards,
Sincerely,
Dr Qaisar Rashid
Lahore.
Your Excellency,
The Ambassador of Pakistan to France,
Mr. Jehanzeb Khan,
Sir, i am an Internationallt accepted Pakistani artist–a painter with 30 solo exhibition of paintings , Nation-Wide & Internationally(Gallerie Michel Raymond -Paris 2000 and 2003, Galeria De’Arte’ Carla Guggi -Rome 2003) on the invitation of there gallerists. Mr. Jehanzeb , Sir, i would like to exhibit my latest paintings , in the premises of Pakistan’s Embassy in Paris or at Ambassador’s resident , Open Air , in your beautiful Lawns-if its the same resident as was in 2003, i was invited by the Ambassador on a Lavish Dinner with 25 diplomates to introduce humble me (a proud Pakistani Artist) to them with my fifteen paintings exposed beautifully on the walls of the Pak Ambassador’s resident. As i am not introduced to you , and you dont me at all, i would like to introduce myself prcisely for easy communication & understanding.
Name: Shaheen Shehla Siddiqui
Title: Ms.
Marital Status: Single Again-Divorced
Date of Birth: 1958 May 20th
Nationality: Pakistani
Religion: Islam (Humanity)
Present Address: D-128, K.D.A.Scheme # 1, Karachi-75350
Email address: shaheen.siddiqui@gmail.com
Land phone: +9221-3-4385440
personal cell # +923072225758
Professions: Artist(a painter), Director/Curator, Gulmohar Art Gallery.
Other Interests: Published Poet of five books in “Urdu” poetry, play “Sitar” , and Traveling–countries visted(Multiple visits) till 2010—Hong Kong, India, Germany, Italy,France, Spain, Switzerland,Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates ,United Kingdom, United States of America.
Mr. Jehanzeb if you forward me your personal email address and contact number i would be able to send you my pictures and the pictures of my paintings through attachments.
Thank you
Best Regards,
Shaheen
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