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Frontier Stations: An Account of Public Service in Pakistan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a personal memoir and a reflection on Pakistans civil service system of administration. The author has an insiders view of many of the critical issues of governance and development which Pakistan faces. His long career covers a critical period of Pakistans recent history and he is a valuable witness to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Pakistan
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 235mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780199406036
• ISBN-10: 0199406030
• Artikelnr.: 64219368

Autorenporträt

Shakil Durran joined the Pakistan Administrative Service in 1971 and served in various posts in different capacities. He spent many years in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) as Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner and as Political Agent in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). He has held such senior positions as the Additional Chief Secretary (Development), NWFP and Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir, and Sindh. Following a stint in Islamabad, he served as Chairman, Pakistan Railways and Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). He is presently, Executive Director, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Sciences and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
^bPart One: A Frontiersman Recalls
1.Fond Memories
2.The Transient Tenures of a Chief Secretary
3. Tales from the Frontier
^bPart Two: Romance of the Frontier
4. The Former Princely States: Chitral, Swat, and Dir
5.The Erstwhile Tribal Areas: A Forbidding Past and an Uncertain Future
6. The Seven Tribal Agencies, now the Merged Districts
^bPart Three: Falling Standards
7.Who Watches the Watchman?
8. The Long Wait for Good Governance
^bPart Four: Critical Issues
1. Endangered Wildlife
2.Water and Power Issues: Na Bijli, Na Pani
3.Degradation of Environment
4.The Legacy of the Railways
^bPart Five: The Power Brokers
5. The Battles Within
6.In Retrospect
^bAcknowledgements
^bAnnexures
1. Of Books and Dedication
2. We Live in Pakistan by Mohamed Amin (1983)
3. Amir Hamza Shinwari