What a Mockery of Democracy - Amin Fahim's daughter given diplomatic post

Maliha Makhdoom, daughter of the PPP diehard loyalist and Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin FahimMakhdoom Amin Fahim (MAF), has been appointed as first secretary to Ireland.

She has been hired as a Foreign Service official without fulfilling the prerequisites of appearing in the CSS examination and going through 18-month training in two different academies.

Her appointment has been facilitated at the behest of the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. While following PM's verbal orders, Foreign Secretary's office moved the summary for appointment of Amin Fahim's daughter.

Maliha Makhdoom has confirmed that she would be leaving for her high profile job of a diplomat in the first week of January.

When asked Maliha Makhdoom if she had taken the CSS examinations as a must requirement, she refused to respond. When told that she had been appointed on the verbal orders of the prime minister, she said there was no harm in it.

When confronted with the question whether it was the right way to occupy a challenging post of a diplomat. To this she said, "Ask the relevant department."

What a service to democracy! What a disappinting way of discriminating 170 million Pakistani ordinary mortals who voted PPP into power!!!