Business Recorder op-ed writer Farhat Ali in his Saturday's article titled "Meritocracy in democracy - I" has heaped a lot of praise on prime minister Imran Khan's response to the growing economic challenges.
He has argued, inter alia, that "After eight months of tireless struggle to put the country's economy on track, PM Imran Khan finally concluded that his government has been checkmated. It was now or never for him and his government as the opposition was rolling its sleeves up to pounce on him, the public had reached its limits of despondency and the other pillars of state were beginning to seriously doubt his government's competence in managing state affairs. The stakes were too high to be further ignored."
The writer, in other words, seems to have lost sight of the fact that growing induction of technocrats into the state governance machinery would minimize the role of elected representatives in a democracy. After all, elected representatives are responsible to the citizenry for their decisions and actions.