Top-ranking officials reshuffled in NAB

Controversial appointment of Kausar Iqbal reversed, others shifted around.


Asad Kharal December 30, 2011

LAHORE:


The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has carried out a major reshuffle in its ranks, with some old faces finally bidding farewell to the institution. Previous appointments, considered controversial, have been overturned and new faces have come to the fore, according to sources.


The contentious appointment of banker Kausar Iqbal Malik as the Director General (DG) of the Financial Crime Investigation Wing, (FCIW) has been reversed and Malik has now been repatriated to the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP). He was also the acting DG Operations at NAB headquarters.  A notification with regard to the reversal of his appointment, obtained by The Express Tribune, was issued on December 27.

Malik had earlier been sacked by NAB in February 2011, when he had returned to NBP – only to return as recently as December 12 to his top-ranking position, on the basis of deputation. Malik, who was previously a senior executive vice president in NBP, had served as the FCIW DG since 2005.

The banker, however, was sacked on his earlier return to NBP within a month, then restored, and then sent to the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) for an assignment, sources said – only to return to NAB this December.

Malik’s transfer is not the only shakeup in NAB’s top ranks, however. Brigadier (retd) Muhammad Musaddiq Abbasi has been transferred from the post of Special Operations Division DG to the acting Awareness and Prevention DG at NAB Headquarters, while his predecessor Siraj Naeem has been appointed acting Training DG at NAB Headquarters. Abbasi’s post is now to be filled by Shahzad Anwar Bhatti.

Khurshid Alam, previously the HR and Finance DG, has been appointed the acting Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa DG and is being replaced by Col (retd) Subah Sadiq. Another notification stated that the NAB chairman “is pleased to appoint” Muhammad Zafarullah Khan as a director at headquarters in Islamabad on an acting charge basis.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2011.

COMMENTS (2)

Lt Col Imtiaz Alam (retd) | 12 years ago | Reply

I have been banging at the Doors of NAB for the last two years or more but no headway. I thought my letters to the new NAB Chairman would make a difference but it seems that even he has given in to the powerful gurus.What a pity.

Not me | 12 years ago | Reply

Changes/transfers are internal affairs of NAB. But people want and expect results

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