Whenever you walk outside the government officers’ bungalows or offices in the morning, you will witness some people sitting on the footpaths. These are helpless people, who have no ‘sources’ for government jobs. These white-clad people camp outside the bureaucratic offices and houses for some kind of help.
And when the officer arrives, these people run towards him holding their relevant documents in hand. However, the police push them away. The police personnel are compelled by their training which they have inherited from the British, to keep the slave nation away from ‘Sahib’. After being disgraced, these people again in the afternoon sit outside the house of the officer so that they can somehow come into Begum Sahiba’s sight.
Out of compulsion, these people have another way which they have inherited from their family since the time of slavery, to please the wives of the officers. If an acquaintance of a person is employed in a government residence, he gives them access to the vast garden of the house with a ‘formula’.
The employee then tells Begum Sahiba, “Mam, just listen to this person, he has been waiting for the past three days.” And when Begum Sahiba comes, these white-clad people start appealing. Begum Sahiba, after hearing compliment, utters a few formal words and says, “Sit down, I will talk to my husband.”
This is a daily routine in almost every city of Punjab and has been going on since the British government. The Civil Services Academy still offers equestrian training like in the British era. The British used to give this training to their officers to control the subjugated nation, which is still going on today.
Officers are taught a certain kind of arrogance and glory for maintaining standards. In the British era, commissioners, deputy commissioners were targeted by the rebels, so they were kept away from the people. Today, even in the independent state, this ritual continues in the same atmosphere. The only difference is that then the officer was white-skinned and today are brown-skinned.
Urdu is the national language of Pakistan in the light of Article 255A of the Constitution of Pakistan and according to the Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Pakistan should have a minimum quota for bureaucratic examinations in terms of academic medium.
More than half of the population is educated in Urdu medium. If 50 percent quota in CSS is allocated for Urdu and 10% quota in mother tongue, then the elites will not suffer much. The poor or the middle class will not care if they are recruited on the Urdu quota and the elites consider them ignorant.
If the state wants, it cannot allow Urdu medium people to go beyond the post of Deputy Commissioner. If the state wants, only those with English medium may be promoted to higher positions from Chief Secretary to Foreign Ministry.
At least for this nation, choose people who can serve the people, who are well acquainted with the accent, language and tradition of the people. Will the 80% of Urdu medium middle class intelligent youth will ever be able to become a part of bureaucracy?
