The tango between merit and accountability in government institutions has placed top-level authority figures and employees against one another for decades. Another such strife is underway regarding court orders to remove undergraduate SHOs from their positions.

While the IG Sindh Police is attempting to implement this order on paper by issuing successive notifications, he has been unable to remove or transfer such unqualified personnel due to their appointments likely being a result of personal or political connections. On the other hand, SHOs argue that simply fixing appointments will not fix the larger culture of using them as scapegoats whilst protecting senior officers in times of crisis.

The inability to fix a government structure comes from the fact that every facet of the structur

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