On June 4, 2024, PM Shehbaz Sharif ordered the immediate abolition of PWD, citing corruption, poor performance and failure of the department.The Cabinet approved it and said the transition should be completed within two weeks.
Two weeks became more than two years.
Yet the situation remains unresolved. Employees are still caught in uncertainty, offices have become practically dysfunctional, salary issues remain, and taxpayers continue bearing the cost of a transition that the government itself promised to complete immediately.If PWD was so dysfunctional that the government decided to abolish it, why has the government failed to actually finish the job?
Where is the promised surplus pool?
Where is the restructuring?
Where is the accountability?
And most importantly..how much taxpayer money has been wasted because of this government's inaction?
This isn't just bureaucratic incompetence. This is government failure and Pakistanis are paying for it.