The Managing Director, Jan 23.

2011

Pakistan Television Corporation,

PTV Headquarters, Islamabad,

Pakistan.

Subject: GOODBYE PAKISTAN, GOODBYE PAKISTAN TELEVISION

This wonderful organization is not able to compete the world of information, education,
and entertainment because:

• Top management is playing musical chair and taking turns to play with the fate of
the PTV and its hardworking employees. This musical chair is being shared
between Mr. Yousef Baig Mirza and Mr. Arshad Khan for many years.

• PTV had been the only channel impacting the lives of more than 70% of the
people in Pakistan with coverage area of more than 80%. Even than could not
retain its viewer ship.

• Having a PTV academy for such a long time, no proper teaching staff recruited,
and no innovation brought, no planning, no concrete out come. Only wastage of
resources.

• General Managers were never appointed with any managerial skills, training or
education. From Rafique Warrich to Munazza Hashmi to Farrukh Bashir, they
were either politically backed, or poet affiliated, or instrument player.

• Retired Major or ordinary security officers were provided short cuts to be

promoted to the post of director administration. What an irony?

• In the name of contractual hiring, nepotism was introduced. Millions were spent
uselessly to hire inefficient, non professional, immature and non creative people
on unaffordable pay packages.
 • Typewriters, mail boys, clerks became “Tangas” , Tanagas became resource
persons, resource persons become producers. What a “strategic human resource
management”! Probably last nail in the coffin of creative process.

• Time has proved, PTV existed in monopoly, under the shadow of corrupt
bureaucratic system since its inception 1964/65. Its fragile structure started
trembling after introduction of private channels. Instead of becoming a
competitive channel, it has exhausted and consumed the resources of the poor
people of Pakistan by collecting money through electricity bills.

• Most of the time, employees union was found a decoy in the hands of puppet
management. So called leaders protected their own vested interest over larger
interest of the organization.

I brought a Canadian Master degree for PTV (never in the history of this Organization),
tried to get PTV benefited. No body was ready to acknowledge it. Mr. Arshad Khan, the
then managing director, never give me the opportunity to serve this organization with
innovative management concepts. Rather I was disgraced, discouraged and compel to
keep working out of my field of expertise.

Keeping in view the pessimistic scenario of PTV, I am no longer interested to be a part of

a sorry tale. I still believe, a ruthless restructuring process (the report prepared and
presented to the MD by me in 2005, but was totally ignored) can save and flourish this
organization. But who cares the national interest, it is all about personal interest. With
sad and heavy heart, I am going to say goodbye to Pakistan Television Corporation.

M. Ajmal Hashmi

A/E

MA English (Pakistan)

MA Policy Analysis (Canada)

Served PTV for 22 years

Joined as A/E , resigned as A/E.