THIS is apropos of Tasneem Noorani’s article ‘The death of governance’ (Sept 18). I agree with the writer that promulgation of the new Sindh Civil Servants (Amendment) Ordinance 2012 has declared the death of governance.

The writer says: “The Sindh Civil Servants (Amendment) Ordinance 2012 gives the government carte blanche to circumvent the provincial Public Service Commission.”

This Machiavellian move is certainly the demise of merit. Now, instead of competent and honest civil servants, appointed through the competitive examination process, we will have the backstairs civil servants, selected on the basis of criterion of better servitude to the ruling political parties.

On the issue civil servants are indifferent, the media is soundless, and the judiciary is inactive. But here my concern is the silence from the candidates of competitive examinations who burn their midnight oil to become civil servants.

I call upon them that whether their conscience is paralysed. Or if they have presumed that one can be a good civil servant without discharging their responsibilities. They must bear it in mind that nature doesn’t care about the nation that cares not the meritocracy.

S. QAISER SOHAIL Hyderabad