PAS prevails as new secretary interior appointed

ISLAMABAD  –   The federal authorities on Friday appointed Paki­stan Administrative Service (PAS) officer Captain (retd) Muhammad Khurram Agha as new Secre­tary Inside following days of stories that differ­ences have developed between inside minister and Prime Minister’s Workplace over this key appoint­ment. In a serious reshuffle, the federal government additionally re­moved Islamabad Police Inspector Basic (IG) Dr Akbar Nasir Khan, a BS-20 officer of the Police Ser­vice of Pakistan (PSP) and appointed Syed Ali Na­sir Rizvi as the brand new police chief of the capital metropolis.

The appointment of Agha, a BS-22 officer of PAS, has ended the continued rumours relating to ap­pointment of Punjab Police IG Dr. Usman Anwar, a PSP officer, as secretary inside.

Few days in the past, some media stories indicated that there have been variations between Prime Min­ister Shehbaz Sharif and Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi over key appointments together with secre­tary inside and heads of different departments that come underneath the latter’s ministry.

This piece of knowledge received some credence when the PM reconstituted the Committee of the Cupboard on Exit Management Listing (ECL) on March 27 and excluded the title of Naqvi from it. The Ministry of Inside maintains the ECL – a no fly checklist – and the inside minister up to now was thought of an im­portant member of the Committee on ECL.

Curiously, Minister of Industries and Professional­duction Rana Tanveer Hussain and Minister for Abroad Pakistanis and Useful resource Growth Chaudhry Salik Hussain have been made members of the committee.

The place of the secretary inside was vacant since final Wednesday (March 27) when Aftab Ak­bar Durrani, a BS-22 officer of PAS, retired after reaching the age of superannuation.

The appointment of a brand new secretary inside has additionally pale hopes of the Police Service of Pakistan that the coveted place will return to the professional­fessional group of police. The place stays with the PAS for over a decade regardless of many with­within the forms asserting that the bureaucratic set-up of the Ministry of Inside ought to be headed by a police officer because it offers with the legislation and or­der and border administration.

In response to a notification issued by the Estab­lishment Division, Agha was posted as Secretary Commerce previous to his switch to the brand new posi­tion. The brand new secretary inside earlier served as Secretary to the Prime Minister within the caretaker set-up. Previous to this, he served because the federal secre­tary communications, chairman Nationwide Freeway Authority and chief secretary Gilgit-Baltistan. He’s the son of a retired main basic and is linked to a famend politician household of south Punjab.

In the meantime, Islamabad Police IG Dr. Akbar Nasir was directed to report within the Institution Divi­sion. Syed Ali Nasir, a BS-20 officer of the police service, would be the new Islamabad Police chief. He was earlier serving within the Punjab Authorities.