Pakistan Army to Take Over Electricity Distribution Companies ..... to Better Serve the Nation

[TheSolution]

Atatürk's system was such that the government built banks, and said banks funded government owned companies that built up the infrastructure of the country.. this laid the groundwork for the industrialisation of the whole country. After his death, most recently in Erdoğan's term, those companies were sold to foreigners at great economic loss. So planned economy can be good in the early stages of industrialisation and privatization can be bad if it's handled poorly.


Is the army trying to fix the economy by doing this or are they just trying to accumulate personal wealth for some corrupt generals? It's hard to tell from my position.You living in UK and me living in Turkey can't really tell what's happening, maybe the electric distribution companies were corrupt, maybe the army is even more corrupt.

I 100% agree with your first paragraph, there isn't a one model fits all, you need to analyse according to your unique specific requirements and work from there. Copy and pasting models for complex things usually fails. Cultures and current conditions vary so copying others doesn't work as well.

On the topic of the army, there are likely elements of corruption but everyone is corrupt in Pakistan, so I find it funny when that's used as the excuse. There is just a general strong culture of corruption and nepotism.

My guess is that these appointments are more related to security matters and who they can trust. There have been data breaches in the past due to civillian workers, maybe army believes a retired officer is a more secure bet.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Efficiency is attained when a qualified , person is used for each Key position.

• Qualified person means , correct combination of Education and Experience

It does not mean a retired Army Person


If the issue is bribe taking - under the table work, stealing from corporation that is issue of
Law and order to put these people behind bar , fix the Police and Justice system

The Army retired person is not solution

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Only reason a Corporation does "Marginally" better with retired officer is because he can pick up phone and call up Police or Courts to force the system to slightly run faster, he would not be intimidated by Unions and worker demands

If same thing was done by a Civilian the process in Pakistan would take 1-3 years

This is not "Performance" or "Ability" this is just FEAR factor

However from Growth / Innovation perspective , the corporation will suffer

Retired Army guy will not understand , accounting
He will not understand marketing
He will not understand best principles of running office
He will not be able to create an innovative workforce

There will never be "Exponential growth" with retired Army guy at top

 

[PradoTLC]

It seems like elections, whenever they are held would be just a formality and the elected officials will have a very limited scope.

I am not sure if Nawaz will be willing to work in that kind of role. Good chances are things go back to ‘99.

Lol

He is dying for that

 

[The Accountant]

Pakistan Army decided to clean the house and send elected government packing back in April 2022 in name of inefficient management. Since then, due to dismal performance of PDM and then caretaker set-up, army had to take over federal hospitals, NAB, WAPDA and NADRA. And somewhere among all this, Army decided to run country's fiances in the form of SIFC.

Now newspapers are reporting the Army is thinking of taking over the Electricity Distribution Companies. Apparently an active duty Brigadier rank officer would oversee each of theses companies.

"According to officials privy to the development, a serving brigadier and his supporting staff comprising officials from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) will oversee matters at the Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs) to be established in in all the loss-making Discos".

Army set to take over loss-making Discos to curb power theft, losses

Besides Pak Army, FIA and IB officials will monitor matters from PMUs, act against people involved in corruption and power theftISLAMABAD: The government has decided to hand over the s

www.pakistantoday.com.pk

Pakistan mulling army crackdown against electricity theft, line losses in distribution companies — official

ISLAMABAD: The government has “carved out a plan” to involve the army in a crackdown against electricity theft and line losses of state-run power distribution companies, the federal secretary of the power division said in an interview to a top Pakistani newspaper published on Thursday. The South...

www.arabnews.com

They have decided that if some plant produce electricity at rates higher than the desired rates then they will arrest the plant and make videos and threaten to release in public ... after all it work for pti then why not on power plant ...

Only reason a Corporation does "Marginally" better with retired officer is because he can pick up phone and call up Police or Courts to force the system to slightly run faster, he would not be intimidated by Unions and worker demands

If same thing was done by a Civilian the process in Pakistan would take 1-3 years

This is not "Performance" or "Ability" this is just FEAR factor

However from Growth / Innovation perspective , the corporation will suffer

Retired Army guy will not understand , accounting
He will not understand marketing
He will not understand best principles of running office
He will not be able to create an innovative workforce

There will never be "Exponential growth" with retired Army guy at top

Sorry brother u r wrong here ... its just administrative measure ... yes u can bring temporary efficiency but at cost innovation and process ... u bypass the process and whole structure get meaningless results in ultimate destruction of that particular department or instituion itself

Only reason a Corporation does "Marginally" better with retired officer is because he can pick up phone and call up Police or Courts to force the system to slightly run faster, he would not be intimidated by Unions and worker demands

If same thing was done by a Civilian the process in Pakistan would take 1-3 years

This is not "Performance" or "Ability" this is just FEAR factor

However from Growth / Innovation perspective , the corporation will suffer

Retired Army guy will not understand , accounting
He will not understand marketing
He will not understand best principles of running office
He will not be able to create an innovative workforce

There will never be "Exponential growth" with retired Army guy at top

Sorry brother u r wrong here ... its just administrative measure ... yes u can bring temporary efficiency but at cost innovation and process ... u bypass the process and whole structure get meaningless results in ultimate destruction of that particular department or instituion itself

 

[PakCan]

DHA housing society,
Just learned about MI housing society
Where is IsI housing society?

This is good, army should just openly turn Pakistan into a housing society, sell it in pieces and then they all can retire in middle east.

 

[Jugger]

It is better to be slaves of muslims rather than be free and equal citizens in a kafir country....!
The worst Muslim is better than the best kafir...!
So Pakistanis need not worry, be happy with your situation.

 

[EyelessInGaza]

PA be like:

 

[delta2]

Well if you wanna break it yes keep doing that

But if you wanna fix it then don't go to guys who had years prior but still couldn't fix it but instead made it worse

Question is
Do u wanna fix the country or break it

Einstein copied his ideas from others.

The fact is that is not the definition of madness. It is like saying give up using a medication if it does not work the first time.

 

[firohot4321]

Einstein copied his ideas from others.

The fact is that is not the definition of madness. It is like saying give up using a medication if it does not work the first time.

If you have been taking that stuff for half yr life and instead of improving u it's making you worse then it ain't the medicine for u deary

Have been asking, demanding and hoping for a deep house cleaning for years, but not like this.

Cannot end corruption and clean house while the biggest crooks, generational thieves and mafias are roaming around freely!!

In order to really clean the house:

The PMLN must be ended and all of their top tier leadership hanged/jailed for life for decadea of corruption.

The PPPPs of all kinds must be ended and treated as above.

All of the so called "reglious" political parties need to be ended and all of their leadership hanged/jailed for life.

Only when the above three things happen, a real house cleaning can be done.

Any religous grouping that opposed the idea of Pakistan and yet still lives and thrives inside Pakistam should be ended also.

Those that brought thieves and crooks into power must face justice.

Those setting up and blackmailing people with secs videos should be put in cages and burned alive.

Anything short of that is just like putting lipstick on a pig.

Yes it should be done
But whose gonna do it

Those that can do it are the main beneficiary of this corrupt system

 

[Englishman]

Perhaps Pakistan army should also consider taking over the defence responsibilities of the nation?

 

[YeBeWarned]

This is just sad...

 

[JaneBhiDoYaaron]

Is Pakistan is going towards de-facto Dictatorships ?

Isn’t that Pakistani in this forum wanted, to Replicate China modes?

 

[delta2]

If you have been taking that stuff for half yr life and instead of improving u it's making you worse then it ain't the medicine for u deary


Yes it should be done
But whose gonna do it

Those that can do it are the main beneficiary of this corrupt system

Read and understand the whole context in the discussion before making an opinion based on three lines.

Perhaps that medicine kept you alive for half a century instead of a painfull death in 3 years.

Isn’t that Pakistani in this forum wanted, to Replicate China modes?

No, Pakistan is destined for a one party rule, which is to be the working class party rule.

So far only the colonial inheritors have been ruling in one way or another.

To become like China, Pakistanis would have to hang the feudal class, confiscate their wealth and jail their families. Then force those families to live as the working class for the next 100 years.

Just like in the USA, and the West in general the Baby Boomers need to die off, the old "uncles" in Pakistan need to die off.

 

[kmc_chacko]

Isn’t that Pakistani in this forum wanted, to Replicate China modes?

The way PDF members are reacting for past 2 years it seems not correct. They wanted IK to be power center for next 10 year and wanted Establishment to play second fiddle and should extend unquestionable support in implementing IK's wishes. But it seems Establishment did not wanted anybody to more powerful than them.