Pakistan

Contract officers: Nine senior bureaucrats sent home

Officials fired on SC orders include FIA chief Waseem Ahmad and IG Sindh Salahuddin Babar Khattak.

Zahid Gishkori February 19, 2011

ISLAMABAD:

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday cancelled the contracts of nine senior officers appointed in key posts in the police and intelligence agencies, bar one following the Supreme Court’s (SC) directive.

The decision regarding other heads of powerful institutions working on extension or contract has not been taken yet. A detailed list of contractual employees was sent to the PM earlier this month according to Establishment Division Secretary Abdul Rauf Chaudhry.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had ordered the government to terminate the services of employees working on contract.

The officials whose services were terminated are Director General (DG) Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) Waseem Ahmad, Inspector General (IG) Sindh Salahuddin Babar Khattak, Managing Director Pakistan Housing Authority Muhammad Ali Afridi, DIG Traffic Karachi Major (Retd) Khurram Gulzar, DIG Larkana Din Muhammad Baloch, DIG Nadir Khoso, A IG Railway Khizar Hayat, Director Intelligence Bureau (IB) Karachi Tariq Jamil and Deputy Director IB Asghar Mahmood.

Advocate Hafeez Pirzada informed the SC about the cancellation of their contracts. The remaining contractual employees are likely to be terminated soon, according to a senior official of the PM Secretariat. A cabinet committee on the PM’s directions is examining the cases of some 20 senior officials who were re-appointed or employed on contract, he told The Express Tribune. Cabinet Division Secretary Nargis Sethi is heading the committee.

Gilani, on the strength of his discretionary powers, had granted extensions to some prominent public servants last year. Citing civil service rules, former civil servants criticised the government’s decision and said “Extension may be given to people on key posts subject to non-availability of suitable candidates.”

Officials, who are still working on contract are Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (Retd) Syed Athar Ali, DIG Gilgit-Baltistan Farman Ali, AIG Railways Lahore Mian Akhtar Hayat, budget coordinator Nasrul Aziz, Joint Secretary Ministry of Finance Talib Baloch, and Joint Secretary of Population Census Khizer Hayat and former secretary establishment Ismail Qureshi as Rector National School of Public Policy.

Meanwhile, Premier Gilani promoted some bureaucrats of the foreign services seconding the recommendations of the Central Selection Board (CSB).Younis Khan, Rab Nawab Khan, Fiaz Muhammad Khoso and Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry of the foreign services of Pakistan have been promoted from Grade 20 to 21, according to a notification issued from PM Secretariat.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 19th, 2011.

COMMENTS (11)

tabinda | 13 years ago | Reply please send home retired senior officials to home as they cant understand new generations and officers honesty and hard work.

Dura Shaw | 13 years ago | Reply Allmost all head of departments are on extension in service of some sort, which make them coward to work honestly in the larger interest of this country, instead they avoid taking any bold step to save their illegal service. That is Pakistan could not progress for inspite of all having natural large Natural resources, If the retired officers on extension were competent in their respective professional fields Pakistan would now be not in such miserable state, every thing has a negative tendency.

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Uza Syed | 13 years ago | Reply Why not send every one home and let the full bench pass a resolution and install one and the only HONEST man in the land as Head of the Govt. as well as the State and the Provinces, too.

sammy | 13 years ago | Reply what about the contract officials in the foreign ministry ?? so many ambassadors are on contract after retiring , occupying major missions !!!!

Only a Pakistani | 13 years ago | Reply DG ISI and Chief of Army Staff must go to home now because both were given extension last year!!!! Premier Gilani must do this to compile the apex court's order.

Muslim | 13 years ago | Reply @Copper: Mr. Chief Justice and the apex court, please practice what you preach. Let Mr. Ramday go home with dignity.

Ali Turk | 13 years ago | Reply Contracts of all retired officers should be cancelled.These officers have failed the antion; just look at the mess we are in. Let the younger officers come and serve. Cancel contracts of all retired officers. I suggest set up a Committee on senior appointments that should consist of representatives from party in power,opposition, and senior government servants.They should recommend the candidate to the PM. Such committee exists in India and I understand from media it is working very well

Suo moto this | 13 years ago | Reply The PCO/CJP should fire retired judges instead of meddling in administrative matters of the govt. It's hard to take him seriously when he has beliefs such as having the right to appoint your own rubber stamp court. In which country does a judge get to appoint his own bench? No dissenter will ever get elevated to his bench.

Dura Shaw | 13 years ago | Reply I am not interesred in cacellation of contract of any specific group but of all rehired employees, this is necessary for the future growth of pakistani youth and economy.

Copper | 13 years ago | Reply Time to cancel the contract of re-hired judges, SC should follow its own decisions!

Dura Shaw | 13 years ago | Reply Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani must cancel the contracts of all contractual employees in all departments inorder to open the road to progress & opertunities to young Pakistanies. It must be noted that no body is indespensable in this world.

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