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Since its launch in March of this year, Imran Khan’s Tiger Force, which the government says mainly comprises young professionals and students, has been active in many areas. Initially put in place to help deal with the coronavirus crisis and the food and health care problems that it brought with it, the force has also been mobilized to tackle the problem of locusts, tree plantations, and now to the problem of rising prices.

We wonder if any of these volunteers have received the necessary training to perform these tasks. The rules for volunteering suggest that it works best when the volunteer force concerned receives at least some basic training in the field in which it is to work. For Pakistan this would have included hospital care, some knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic and how to handle SOPs and later, as it was turned into some kind of militia, control of locusts or other pests and the price control or tree planting. There is no indication that such training was offered.

It is also a fact that we already have many groups capable of offering volunteers in many of these areas. The Saylani group, which set up soup kitchens for people, is just one example. We also have the Edhi Foundation, Chippa as well as religious groups, which have their own social wings and work extremely efficiently. In the presence of these volunteers, it is not clear why a new force was needed. Tigers have always been a part of Imran Khan’s profile and this is the name he gave to his World Cup winning cricket team as well as the group of volunteers who worked with him to raise funds. for the excellent Shaukat Khanum Hospital set up in Lahore. But when the government is involved and the tasks at hand are far more important than winning a World Cup, or even starting a hospital, the issue of volunteers becomes complicated.

While some of the one million volunteers who would constitute the force, including the 350,000 who would be active, may be extremely well-intentioned and extremely effective in their efforts, there have been several reports that some have taken their authority very differently. Abuses of power have been reported. This is not a way to run a country; creating hostility is not the answer to the problems that exist.

In fact, these responses may not rely on a force of volunteers at all. Volunteers are extremely useful when they are led by NGOs or when responding in times of crisis, such as a cyclone. It is true that the coronavirus pandemic is a crisis, but the Tiger Force has been used far beyond. It is also true that in the past we have had configurations of volunteers of various types, which ultimately failed to provide anything useful.

General Pervez Musharraf had set up a group of volunteers with roughly the same agenda as that proposed by Imrans Tigers. He had said that the force would be organized and used to help people in various ways. There is no evidence that this ever happened. Since Musharraf’s time in the mid-2000s, this force has disappeared. It certainly no longer exists in concrete form. The same is true for other voluntary organizations created in the past in the years since the 1970s.

There is also the question of how governments and voluntary forces should work together. The task of checking prices should be the job of local governments and their various wings. The fact that local governments do not exist in all provinces is of course a problem, but this can be resolved rather quickly by holding elections. Until then, various wings of the provincial government may be tasked with reviewing prices, managing traders, and working with them, rather than against them, so that prices can be controlled.

A private militia of any kind is always dangerous. It is the job of fascists and dictators around the world to set up such militias for their own benefit. We know the Tiger Force is not meant to serve this purpose. But some of its members seem to be wrong on this point. There should be utter despondency from anyone trying to find their way into positions where they can gain advantages for themselves or threaten traders and farmers.

The country cannot be managed that way. We have to find a better way. To run a government effectively, Imran Khan and his cabinet must first find out how to run parliament and how to run it. The habit of passing laws by ordinance is dangerous. The same goes for the work of the Tiger Force. An outfit like this can only work for a limited time. It must be replaced eventually, by a systematic method of governance that can last from government to government and continue to function, no matter who is running business in the country.

The Tiger Force’s loyalty to Imran Khan in particular also reflects our rather sectarian policies. We need people who can work efficiently, effectively with good intentions, but also with honesty and loyalty to people rather than to a particular leader. The Tiger Force will not be able to do this. It is also essential that those who are part of this outfit receive additional instruction and training on the work they are to perform.

Doctors say they turned out to be somewhat of a handicap in hospitals at the height of the Covid-19 crisis in June this year, when they entered intensive care units and simply harassed them. doctors rather than creating any kind of program that could really benefit patients or relieve the enormous burden on doctors.

It is time for Imran Khan to learn to act more maturely as Prime Minister, alongside his cabinet, and to step away from the forces of the tiger. And realized that it is best to run things through the different levels of government that exist in every democracy and are meant to guide people and help them in times when they are faced with problems, so that problems can be resolved methodically and over a long period of time. time.

The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor.

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