{"id":87474,"date":"2025-09-30T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=87474"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T04:03:55","slug":"acting-president-gilani-urges-senior-civil-servants-to-embrace-innovation-collective-efforts-for-national-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/acting-president-gilani-urges-senior-civil-servants-to-embrace-innovation-collective-efforts-for-national-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting President Gilani urges senior civil servants to embrace innovation, collective efforts for national progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting President Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday met with the participants of the 38th Senior Management Course at Aiwan-e-Sadr and highlighted the critical role of the civil service in ensuring good governance, continuity, and institutional integrity.<br \/>\nIn his address, the Acting President said that access to senior management positions was a recognition of years of hard work, discipline, and dedication to public service. He stressed that Pakistan\u2019s civil servants had always demonstrated competence, commitment, and performance in carrying out their responsibilities.<br \/>\nGilani underlined that the civil service was the custodian of the state system and its prestige. He appreciated the Inland Study Tour for providing officers with practical exposure to the workings of governmental and parliamentary institutions.<br \/>\nHe noted that the Senate Secretariat was actively promoting transparency and efficiency through e-governance and artificial intelligence. Praising the contribution of officers during the recent floods in South Punjab, he said that natural disasters tested both institutional capacity and the spirit of public service.<br \/>\nHighlighting climate change as a pressing challenge, the Acting President said it was a shared responsibility of all institutions and communities. \u201cAt the senior management level, leadership must adopt cooperation, learning, innovation, and humility,\u201d he remarked.<br \/>\nHe emphasized that achieving national development goals was not possible for any single department or institution alone and called for collective efforts to ensure progress. He urged the officers to align their training and experiences with public welfare and national priorities.<br \/>\n\u201cParliament is committed to working with reform-oriented and proactive officers to meet the aspirations of the people,\u201d Gilani said, adding that honesty, vision, and sincerity of purpose were essential for Pakistan\u2019s development and prosperity.<br \/>\nThe session concluded with an interactive question-and-answer segment, during which the Acting President reiterated the importance of transparent and effective governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting President Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday met with the participants of the 38th Senior Management Course at Aiwan-e-Sadr and highlighted the critical role of the civil service in ensuring good governance, continuity, and institutional integrity. In his address, the Acting President said that access to senior management positions was a recognition of years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87487,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87474\/revisions\/87487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}