CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

After independence Pakistan inherited a colonial service structure, wherein the status of a civil servant was no more than a personal slave. The services of the employees were on the pleasure of the Crown. For quite a long time, no steps were taken to reform the service structure so as to bring it in conformity with the principles of basic human rights. In the beginning, the Government of India Act, 1935 was adopted as the Provisional Constitution of Pakistan. Some important terms and conditions of employees were provided and guaranteed in the act but these were not compatible with the requirements of a modern welfare state. So the Government of Pakistan with the passage of time introduced some Constitutional Provisions that guaranteed the fundamental rights of the civil servants. This research work is an effort to make the employees of government or other agencies aware of all the Constitutional Provisions that protect their basic rights.