Pakistan, Sept. 14 -- Why officials who govern public hospitals, schools and transport should have a stake in their quality - and how Pakistan can get there without compulsion

A quiet but pointed question has entered Pakistan's policy conversation in recent weeks: should the officials who run the country's public hospitals, schools, universities and transport systems also be the ones who use them? Senator Pervaiz Rashid raised it on the floor of the Senate, arguing that anyone drawing a salary from the public exchequer - from the prime minister to a Grade-22 bureaucrat - should receive treatment in government hospitals rather than private ones. He extended the logic to schooling and daily commuting, and proposed that officials who opted ...