‘Murree to have district status soon’
Member National Assembly (MNA) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Murree Sadaqat Ali Abbasi has said that preparations to make Murree the first tourist district of Pakistan have entered the final stages.
Haider Ali has been appointed as the first Superintendent of Police (SP) of Murree. Senior bureaucrat Hassan Waqar Cheema has been appointed as the first Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) after the administrative upgrade.
The two top administrative officers will take charge in Murree from next week.
Talking to The Express Tribune, the MNA said that all 30 departments of the Punjab Government were being upgraded in Murree. He said senior officers for these departments were also being appointed.
He said that the jurisdiction of all these officers would consist of the two tehsils of the new Murree district: Murree and Kotli Sattian.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 8th, 2022.