The Punjab government finally removed Gujranwala Regional Police Officer (RPO) Riaz Nazir Gara and Divisional Commissioner Gulzar Hussain Shah from their positions in the wake of the Daska by-election controversy. File
LAHORE: The Punjab government finally removed Gujranwala Regional Police Officer (RPO) Riaz Nazir Gara and Divisional Commissioner Gulzar Hussain Shah from their positions in the wake of the Daska by-election controversy.
The action was taken against both officers of the Pakistan Police Service and the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) in compliance with the recommendations of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The commission, in its strongly-worded recommendations, had demanded removal of both the officers from the posts on complaints of alleged rigging , aerial firing to harass voters and mismanagement, particularly, on the polling day in the NA-75 of Daska.
The long-awaited civil service ‘reforms’ announced by the government last week mostly seek to address operational issues.
The long-awaited civil service ‘reforms’ announced by the government last week mostly seek to address operational issues by changing the existing rules of business or drawing up new ones where needed for removal of procedural confusions.
Implementation of these measures is likely to streamline the process involving promotions of civil servants to higher grades by categorically defining the appointing authority, and laying down clear-cut evaluation criteria. New rules have also been drawn up to cut the ‘deadwood’ in the bureaucracy through forced retirement of delinquent officers besides putting in place a mechanism for conducting disciplinary inquiries against the civil servants transparently within a given timeframe. The MP (management professions) Scale policy has also been revised, detailing the changes related to the employees of the management p
Mr Rai will replace Mohsin Hasan Butt, who served in the province for more than two-and-a-half years.
Mr Rai is a senior police officer of the Pakistan Police Service. Before his new assignment, he worked as chief of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), Punjab, for six years.
Sources said that his appointment as Balochistan IG was made in view of the recent terrorist incident in which 11 Hazara coal miners were killed by assailants in the Mach coal field area of Bolan district two weeks back.
Mr Rai played an important role in elimination of terrorists and their facilitators in Punjab during his six-year term as Punjab CTD chief.