Pakistan, Oct. 20 -- From protests over unpaid wages to a passion for public service, from streets lost in darkness to roads and towns glowing with new lights, and from empty coffers to record-breaking revenues, Lakki Marwat's turnaround is nothing short of inspirational, fueled with passion by the highly motivated district's administration's machinery steered by the dynamic incumbent deputy commissioner.

Every rupee earned, every lease signed and every service delivered now stands as proof that when leadership is visionary and governance is practical, even the most fragile institutions can become engines of progress.

Once symbols of bureaucratic fatigue and public despair, district offices that were once choked with backlog and ineffic...