Six-month delay: PTDC to get new chief after Eid

The PTDC has been functioning without its head for past six months as the former managing director has retired

ISLAMABAD: The country’s premier tourism development organisation — the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) will have a new managing director as government has decided to fill this post, it was learnt on Monday.

According to the sources, former provincial minister of prisons, Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor will take charge as the PTDC managing director after Eidul Azha. Prime minister is expected to approve the summary, which has been sent to him by the PTDC board recently.

The PTDC has been functioning without its head for past six months as the former managing director retired on April 6, 2016.

However, sources in the Establishment Division told the Daily Express that the government had decided to appoint Ghafoor, who remained Punjab prisons minister from 2008 to 2012. The decision was taken during a PTDC board’s meeting chaired by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervez Rashid last week. The sources close to the development told Daily Express that since the Ministry of Tourism had devolved to the provinces after the 18th Amendment the status of PTDC had remained uncertain.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2016.