Finance Minster Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said on Saturday that the size of the government on federal, provincial, tribal and district levels was “unmanageably large” for the resource-constrained Pakistan.
He said the governments in the centre, provinces, tribal areas, Azad Kashmir and other districts were consuming most of the public money. “When Quaid-e-Azam was the governor general of Pakistan, he had a six-member cabinet including the prime minister,” he said, adding that former president Pervez Musharraf also had 18 members in his cabinet initially.
“So we have got to raise this voice as the government activities are unmanageably large,” Sheikh said. He told a seminar organised by Transparency International-Pakistan (TIP) on “Performance of the Federal Tax Ombudsman” here at a local hotel that his government had issued show-cause notices to thousands of people identified as income tax evaders.
Or your management skills stink to high heaven
Thanks God, the finance minister has eventually realized the folly being done for the last six decades, resulting poor governance and extravagant and he should also take steps to translate his words in to actions by curtailing the large army of economic managers and their assistants to the extent of 25% of the existing number including ministers and advisers for efficiency and economy.
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