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High level transfer in Police dept
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government on Wednesday appointed Sanaullah Abbasi as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police new FIA DG.
Wajid Zia is assigned the position of National Police Bureau director general.
Mr Zia headed the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that probed the Panamagate, leading to disqualification of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Being the JIT head, he was the star prosecution witness in all three references against former premier. He was removed from the powerful post of the FIA DG about two weeks after the government announcement that the FIA would reinvestigate the Hudaibya case against the Sharif family.
On May 25, the information minister Fawad Chaudhry and adviser to the prime minister on interior and accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar briefed the court reporters that the government had principally decided to reopen the Hudaibya case and the task would be assign to the FIA within a couple of weeks.
According to the notification issued by the establishment division, Wajid Zia, a BS-22 officer of the PSP, presently serving as FIA DG, is transferred and posted as NPB DG under the interior division with immediate effect and until further orders.
Another notification stated: “With the approval of the federal government, Mr Sanaullah Abbasi, a BS-22 officer of PSP, presently serving as Provincial Police Officer (PPO), Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is transferred and posted as FIA DG under interior division, in terms of Section 3(2) of the FIA Act, 1974, with immediate effect and until further orders.”
The federal government also appointed Mozzam Jan Ansar, a PSP officer of BS-21 who is presently serving at Frontier Constabulary (FC) as its commandant, as the new KP police chief.
A day earlier the establishment division had notified Mohammad Sohail Tajak, a PSP officer of BS-20 posted in the Intelligence Bureau, as the AJK police chief.
Salahuddin Khan, a PSP officer of BS-21 who is serving as the inspector general of police in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has been posted as FC commandant in place of Mr Ansar.
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