Peshawar, February 8
Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government has closed a primary school being run in an old Hindu temple, paving the way for the minority community to worship at the site.
The students of the school will be enrolled into nearby schools, the education department said. Officials said that the temple has been handed over to the Hindu community. The Hindus have now been allowed to worship at the temple, the officials said.
In another development, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said his government was committed to depoliticising and insulating the country’s bureaucracy from “all kinds of political pressures”.
His statement came days after the Supreme Court, in a rare rebuke to Pakistan’s powerful military, prohibited them from engaging in political activities.
Chairing a meeting of Task Force on Civil Service Reforms here, Khan said he regretted that bureaucracy was heavily politicised during the past ten years which resulted in its inefficiency and created fear amongst the bureaucrats. Imran said the government is firmly committed to undertaking structural reforms of bureaucracy to make it efficient and responsive to the need of the hour.
“Bureaucracy will be depoliticised and insulated from all kinds of political pressures,” he said.
“During the 60s and 70s, Pakistan’s civil service was one of the best in the region and countries from the region would come to us and learn from us,” Khan was quoted as saying by Geo News. “Unfortunately political interference has destroyed the civil service,” the prime minister said.
He said accountability and merit were the only way the system can be made better and it is the government’s mission to depoliticise the bureaucracy. — PTI
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