Hunt for Governor

Why is it taking the govt. such long in appointing a governor for Sindh? Is there some sort of haggling or negotiations going on between the political parties in picking up one who should be acceptable to them all?  Why do they want him to be their man? Do they expect him to favour them even if they are wrong? Why can’t the President appoint someone who is firm, fair, competent, honest, just and physically fit?  Is there a problem in finding someone with such righteous traits? If it is, then it is the most unfortunate for us as a nation that we can’t produce a single such person! Or, do the political parties want the ‘selected’ person to side with them in case of a dispute or favour irrespective of the merit of the case or what is good for the country? 

Same is always the case in appointing the head of the most other important autonomous or semiautonomous bodies.  Can the person so selected and appointed be said to be a man of character, who will favour one or the other out of the merit and against his conscience?  As a matter of fact, anyone appointed after such haggling between the parties should decline to accept the appointment lest he be dubbed as an insipid, spineless and characterless person who would be dancing to the tunes called by his appointee.

What kind of a people are we?

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)