Off the hook: FC commandant released by court
Naveed was being detained in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that had charged him of misusing his authority as Frontier Constabulary (FC) Commandant and conducting illegal recruitment of about 500 people.
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Judge Afsar Shah, while giving the decision, ordered release of Naveed along with Police Support Officer-I Ghaniur Rahman Wazir, ATO Hamid Hassan and former District Officer FC Muhammad Shoaib.
NAB had filed the reference, on Novemeber 24, 2010, in the accountability court seeking trial of the former IGP for misuse of his authority. NAB sent a brief of the case to its head office regarding the case in which the officials of FC, including its former commandant, were blamed for recruiting candidates illegally.
After conducting the tests and interviews, the body prepared a list of 776 recommended candidates with an additional 183 in the reserve list.
However, according to the case brief, the commandant appointed 1,246 candidates out of whom only 750 were recommended by the committee while the remaining 496 were recruited illegally, the case brief noted.
According to the case brief, an advertisement was published in newspapers for available posts in the FC on May 28, 2006.
The venue for the test and interview was mentioned as the constabulary’s headquarters in Shabqadar, which was later changed to FC Headquarters in Hayatabad for unknown reasons. Also, the FC office did not provide the corrigendum to the NAB probe team despite reminders.
After the advertisement, the FC commandant formed a five-member committee to conduct tests and interviews and prepare merit list.
Some of the committee members included district officers of FC Hayatabad, Hangu and assistant district officers of the constabulary in Shabqadar.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 11th, 2011.
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Malik Naveed Khan is a brilliant yet an honest Officer. It is not I who is saying this but can be asked by the people of the Province. His contributions to FC and Police are countless. This can be asked by the current officers as well. I know his respectable and well reputed family and where he belongs from. Hats off to you Malik Naveed Sb. and God give you courage to stop all evil from coming in your way. We need more officers like you
Dear Tribune, Sorry to inform you this but i noticed that your above news info is quite biased. Not a single positive thing has been mentioned about his services to the nation. I suggest you change your library, gather some material and post some positive material as well. Give him credit for what he has done in the worst of times.
he is a good man
Malik Naveed was IG at a difficult time that he handled remarkably well. He showed tremendous courage and will power to fight the odds. I salute him.
He is a very loyal person and a true verton. He comes from a very sound background and has tremendous contribution in reforming the system. Its great to see that he was cleared of the allegations against him as its true.