Bair, for one, said in a radio interview: "This was a very positive move, and the board discharged its responsibilities and I think they should be commended".
If so, is the board equipped with the moral precepts, intellectual ideas and norms of conduct that will enable it to discharge its responsibility to society?
The state must discharge its responsibility as guarantor and regulator of education as a fundamental human entitlement and as a public cause.
The delay has stirred broad international criticism, with the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, urging the election commission on Monday "to discharge its responsibility and release the results expeditiously and with transparency".
Yet, the government continues to discharge its responsibility for the health and prosperity of the economy through coerced trickle-down; in other words, through redistribution achieved by the rigging of labor prices, including the minimum wage; by taxation to support redistribution and job "creation;" or subsidization by inflation and by all kinds of welfare, open and concealed.
In 2007, the association retained the firm for an additional five years, assuring Getnick & Getnick it would be conferred "maximum independence" in discharging its responsibilities.
It added, "Consistent with Pakistan's policy of support for the decisions of the Security Council, the government will discharge its responsibilities under international law".
Ahmadinejad also had harsh words for the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which he said had been "unsuccessful in discharging its responsibilities" because of the influence of the US over its management.
