A Typical DMG Career: The Quiet Ladder
Young Ahmed clears the CSS exam and enters the Civil Services Academy in Lahore. For two years he lives inside a pressure cooker of lectures, drills, and endless networking. His batch quickly forms tight “tribes” — lifelong alliances that will decide postings, favours and promotions for decades. This tribe or family will stay in power for the next 30+ years
After the academy he spends three hard years in the field as Assistant Commissioner: revenue courts, law-and-order crises, angry crowds and politicians. The district teaches him how Pakistan actually runs.
By his mid-thirties the system rewards the sharp ones. Eighty percent of ambitious officers secure scholarships to Harvard, Oxford, LSE or similar. Ahmed returns with a foreign degree, polished English and a valuable international contact book. He is now fully westernized and indirectly wired to take debt and follow western consultants
Back home he hunts “project” postings. Many move to donor-funded programmes — World Bank, ADB, FCDO, USAID — either on deputation or full secondment. The salary is better, the work cleaner, the reports international. No matter if more debt is required. Not his problem. Besides the consultants give him clean advice that he learnt at Harvard etc
By now he has also secured a spacious GOR house in Lahore that, with the right connections, he will not vacate for the next thirty or forty years.
A few years later he angles for an overseas slot: Commercial or Economic Counsellor in an embassy, or a position at the WTO or some other such agency.
After three to five rewarding years abroad he returns as Joint or Additional Secretary. With luck he reaches full Secretary rank, controlling large budgets and key policies.
In these golden years he quietly but aggressively cultivates donor representatives. Conferences, study tours and quiet dinners build the bridge.
When retirement arrives — or even early retirement — consulting contracts, advisory roles and well-paid door-opener positions appear. Donors need exactly these men: insiders who know every file, every approval route and every decision-maker.
What should we expect? A highly internationalised bureaucracy whose career incentives are shaped as much by foreign aid ecosystems as by national interest.
Who do they ultimately serve? The Government of Pakistan on paper; the revolving door of donors and multilateral organisations in practice.
Conflict of interest? Significant and largely unaddressed.
This is why experts like Stefan Dercon remain in high demand. For a few hundred million pounds over the years, Britain and other donors have built deep influence inside Pakistan’s elite bureaucracy. The system is not “owned,” but it is skilfully rented.
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Govt hospital visits are fine, but these clown bureaucrats should learn respect. Carrying cameras and doing PR stunts doesn’t make you understand healthcare.
Passing CSS after an MA doesn’t make you superior to doctors who survive years of academics, training, and hospital duty.
This vdo is an absolute cringefest, The girl who says ‘Acha ji’ deserves to get slapped the most. All of them are at least 30+, how are they representing youth?
Time moves slowly passes quickly. It was Dec 1999 when an Indian place IC 814 was hijacked and landed at Kandhar. India was forced to release 3 prisoners including Masood Azhar in exchange of 178 passengers. In Feb 2026 Pakistan bombed headquarters of Afghan Taliban in Kandhar.
Just like the India game, Salman Agha poor with his captaincy. Their biggest winner Usman Tariq bowls the 8th over, picks a wicket and doesn’t concede runs, and Kaptaan Saab takes him off, and brings him on only after others conceded 36 off next 3 overs - virtually when the game was over. Poor poor captaincy, if he couldn’t win this game with as many runs, he possibly can’t win any.
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The most chilling thing about the trial of @ImaanZHazir and @AdvHadiali is how easy it was for the state. Two prominent lawyers, the ones mothers call when a son disappears or a blasphemy charge ruins a life, are facing 7–14 years for tweeting. In most countries, lawyers of their stature aren’t used as test subjects for whatever new authoritarianism the state wants to normalise.
Their trial and sentencing is a calculated message for everyone in Pakistan. If human rights lawyers with national and international profiles can be handed a decade in prison for comments online, it’s pointless to pretend anyone is safe. If you’re not horrified, you’re not paying attention.
Business as usual will not take Pakistan forward: SIFC!
Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) National Coordinator Lt General Sarfraz Ahmad on Thursday laid out a roadmap to make the economy competitive by substantially reducing the corporate tax burden, cutting down interest rate and having a pragmatic exchange rate. https://t.co/ZfMmz13tdx