Table of Contents
- The Harsh Reality Behind SMSS Jobs
- The Illusion of Prestige
- Only a Few Aim to Serve
- Colonial Roots of the Civil Services System
- System Manipulation in Modern Times
- The Dilemma After Success
- The Easy Path: Compliance
- The Price of Loyalty
- Civil Servants and Election Manipulation
- The Hard Way: Resistance
- Silenced Voices of Change
- Consequences of Reform Attempts
- A Final Message to Aspirants
The Harsh Reality Behind SMSS Jobs
There was so much pressure that I tried to commit suicide after the morning prayer.
This is how SMSS’s job is.
They tie your hands and feet and leave you without any resources.
And you are expected to fire a big gun.
And everything is against you.
The Illusion of Prestige
There is a program in which they want to call me.
So I told them that I will definitely come.
But first, I need to go to the police station.
Since childhood, we have been told that the most difficult exam in Pakistan is CSS.
And it is said that not everyone can pass it.
Because to succeed in it, you have to work very hard and study day and night.
90% out of 100 people tell you that if you pass this exam, your life will change completely.
I have seen that 90-95% of people say that they will get everything.
You get a good house, car and the most important protocol from the government.
It is necessary that we get some protocol.
In that protocol, the road should be clean for us.
We should have a constable.
We should have everything.
And if you get a good department, your life is set.
And after getting this job, people start respecting you a lot.
Only a Few Aim to Serve
But only 10% out of 100 people do CSS and other exams at the sub-level.
Only because you do good policies, public administration, development planning, crisis management, public welfare.
In simple words, you want to serve people.
Our society emphasizes on the fact that this job changes your personal life, not others.
But they don’t know that after getting this job, you may get power and protocol.
But in your life, slavery begins.
Colonial Roots of the Civil Services System
To understand this journey of slavery properly, we have to go into history and see where this system starts.
It starts in 1853 from the British colonial era, which was started by a company called East India.
And it is called ICS at that time.
After independence, India changed its name to CSC, i.e. Civil Service Examination, which is conducted by UPSC.
And Pakistan changed it to CSP and later CSS, i.e. Central Superior Service, which is conducted by FPSC.
CSS tests, which is done by a loyal government.
And in the same way, all provinces put these tests in their provinces.
So this was a system brought by the British, through which the British implemented their policies and ruled India.
After the British left, this system was not finished, but continued.
Only its name is changed.
System Manipulation in Modern Times
Before and after independence, these officers used to get a constitutional protection.
But the last nail in this coffin is dug in the era of the Pakistan People’s Party,
when these officers are made political by making constitutional amendments.
Now let’s look at this system from today’s perspective.
This is the same system that the British were behind, but now politicians and powerful people have taken their place.
The only difference is that earlier these officers used to implement the rights and wrongs of the British,
and now the rights and wrongs of these politicians and powerful people.
Now let’s see how this system makes these officers its slaves.
The Dilemma After Success
Just think, you work hard for 4 to 5 years and see day and night in the preparation of this exam.
When you succeed and start your job, then you realize that you have to do the work
that less educated people and illiterate politicians give you.
When you get a position, they are rewarded with a sheet, CC-1 certificate and Rs 10,000 in cash.
Where will you go after this?
After this, you will get another posting in Dadu.
Tell me, Rane is a ruler, you want to start agriculture.
Now you have two ways.
The Easy Path: Compliance
The first way is very easy, in which you will have to do everything that these people make you do.
In return, 90% of the people get everything that they want and pass this exam.
On the second way, we will talk further in this video.
Let’s put a little light on this easy way and see how these officers are rewarded in return for their slavery.
These officers may not have a salary of more than 1,00,000-1,25,000,
but apart from this, whatever is given to them, you will be surprised to hear.
Commissioner Sargodha, you see, his house is full of wheat.
Many employees work under each officer, who are always there to serve them.
One officer who takes Rs 1,10,000-Rs 20,000 salary from you,
30-35 employees are serving him.
They are given houses and plots in very good and expensive areas,
on which they also get tax relief.
The oil of their cars, the electricity bill of their houses, everything is paid by the government.
Even if their children are involved in a crime,
like a robbery or someone’s life is lost by their hands,
nothing is said to them.
In fact, the system protects them.
These officers are rewarded and supported in every way.
The Price of Loyalty
Recently, this government is building luxury houses for these officers in very good and expensive areas.
This reward is given to them in return of their servitude,
so that they can get their work and decisions done.
Just think, in such difficult conditions, where the country is being run with a loan,
but money is being spent on them to keep these officers happy and to get their work and decisions done.
Not only this, but these officers have also been given tax relief in the budget,
which has also been challenged in Lahore High Court.
Now, those who do this civil service so that they can get money and power,
then this system protects and supports them a lot.
They have no shame in the fact that they are doing slavery.
They take great advantage of this system.
Civil Servants and Election Manipulation
Now, let me give you an example from the recent elections,
how this system uses these officers.
In these elections and the elections that have passed before this,
a term is used, ROs, i.e. Returning Officers.
In these returning officers, civil servants are also included,
who pass the CSS exam,
or the provincial levels, i.e. the Public Service Commission, which comes from the sub-level.
These civil servants are used as an important tool.
These officers are put on election duties for this reason,
so that the results can be achieved according to their will.
This means that the government takes advantage of these officers’ position and authority,
so that the results of the elections can be achieved in their favor.
All this happens so that these ROs have a lot of important responsibilities,
which can affect the process of elections.
For example, ROs are responsible for the polling stations,
with which they control the voting process.
ROs also monitor the voting process,
with which they can make sure that the voting is in their favor,
which they want to win.
The action of vote counting is also under the supervision of ROs,
which is another way to influence the results.
In the end, ROs only announce the results,
which gives them the last chance to present the results according to their will.
In this way, these civil servants, who work as returning officers,
have an impact on every aspect of the elections.
Now, the officer who agrees to something,
he also develops and gets a promotion.
The Hard Way: Resistance
Now comes the second way, in which you resist,
or talk about changing the system,
because you are among those who really come for public service.
As a result of this resistance, your life is made difficult.
Or you are transferred to a place where you can’t do anything.
Or you are threatened and pressurized to go into depression and anxiety.
He called one of my officers and told him to transfer me to the mental asylum.
I am in such a bad condition.
Why is there no posting?
Silenced Voices of Change
In the case of Ayaan Ali, the custom officer who arrested him,
he is so pressurized that he is threatened to kill him by calling him.
And in the end, if he doesn’t listen, he is killed later.
This commissioner of Bindi, who was listening to him,
everything was fine.
As soon as he stands against the system, he is made to disappear.
And we still don’t know where this officer went.
Even the media is not allowed to talk about it.
You all must know Asher because he was very famous because of his smoke drama.
He was one of those few officers who wanted to bring a change in the system.
And used to talk about reforms in customs.
He used to say that why do ships stand here for weeks,
and how the file keeps moving from one officer to another.
He used to talk about why our system is not efficient like other countries.
Those of you who have studied VASTA in customs,
you must know how bad and tight the system is there.
And what is done to those who go there.
As happened with Ibrahim, you can watch his video
in which he has told what the customs did to him.
And whenever I went to him, he was telling me
that he has to do this, he has lost all the files.
Everyday stories were happening.
Consequences of Reform Attempts
Anyway, what happens is that Asher is given the punishment to improve the system
that he is suspended from his job and cases are filed against him.
And in the end, he leaves the country and starts driving a truck in Canada.
Because I didn’t want to do this job.
In this, I had seen the assembly, how it works.
I had also seen the executive, how it works.
I had also seen the institutions, how they work.
And now he is a young officer, who in the end gets fed up and commits suicide.
There are many such officers who have swallowed this system.
There are many such examples which are not shown on the media.
A Final Message to Aspirants
My purpose in making this video is not to hurt or discourage anyone.
In fact, I want to tell that if you want to give the commission exam
so that you can enjoy the bungalow, car and power,
then it is possible that you will get all this.
But your life will be like a slave,
who can’t do anything on his own.
If you work so hard for so many years and after so much struggle,
you want to remain a slave to someone,
then it is better that you do this hard work on a business,
where you will get money, car and a good life.
At least you will not be a slave to anyone.
The remaining 10% people who come to serve people,
this number is very low.
Those 90% people will also have to be included in this
if they want to change this system
and want to change this rotten system.
Remember that a wet wood burns with dry wood,
but if all the wood is wet, then it becomes difficult to burn them.
Take care of yourself. Allah Hafiz.
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