Former inspector general motorways Zafar Abbas Lak. PHOTO: QAZI USMAN
Lak was a Grade 21 officer and will now be downgraded to Grade 20.
The former IG had used around Rs1 million worth of public money on congratulatory advertisements after Nawaz was elected prime minister.
The prime minister had removed Lak from the post on June 12 over the same issue and had directed the concerned authorities to initiate disciplinary proceedings against him for wasting public money.
It was decided after the disciplinary proceedings that Lak will be demoted and the public money spent on advertisement will be deducted from his pension.
PM Nawaz had barred ministries and autonomous bodies from issuing such advertisements and warned that there would be action against those who violate his directions.
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Well this is great the countrymen have at last seen some one taking decision against individuals misusing public moneyk. What is difficult to understand that why is it that an educated man does not know that he can get a stay order form a court and live with it till his tenure of service. Pl remember the courts of this country survive only on stay orders which in the end lead to no decisions and the beauty of the system is that people keep on comming to the courts to waste time and nothing else. Talking of reforms now that we have a new CJ who people believe may not be to much interested in politics should step in reform the system. The nation will stand with him we want the rule of law and not anarchy.
Please dismiss this corrupt person.
If he was retired then how was he demoted.
Government servants are not allowed under the law to participate in the political activities, give press statements (unless authorized by the concerned Government Department), publicly oppose government decisions or issue congratulatory statements through press mad media.
Unfortunately, the present day of the government servants do not know well about these restrictions and try to please the higher-ups so as to become close to the highest authorities for personal gains.
The punishment should be noted by all government servants for future reference.
All he was doing was brown-nosing as he has been doing it in the past, the past politicians loved it and he thought he will be in the good books with the new flock and make good return on this public money for himself. He should have been sent home for good instead of demoting. This is exactly what is wrong with the police institution in Pakistan. Well done Nawaz Sharif.
Well done for getting rid of this brown noser.
This is a commendable step by a democratically elected government and should serve as warning for all bureaucrats who believe in sycophancy. The pseudo-intellectuals will continue their troll in any case.
@asim: At least Nawaz Sharif is trying to bring about positive change in the nation by showing that unlawful behaviour will not be tolerated. This is more than can be said for other politicians and dictators. Only Nawaz and PTI have been showing that world that Muslim democracies such as Pakistan can be accountable too.
PTI has set an example of removing corrupt office bearers, naturally NS has to follow as usual. Well done PTI
He probably denied to node his head in front of Mughal Azam.
@Sadiq:
did he or did he not waste money on those ads? thats really the only thing that matters.
Who will demote Nawaz himself for looting the whole nation???
I wonder what comes in the category of spending public wealth on election activities. Reminds me o the many jalsaas on kundaas and use of WAPDA and other government resources!
@Shoaib: He is related to Chaudhries of Gujrat, so such action has been taken.
If this is the real story then all office barriers of Punjab govt should also be demoted for being using public money in General election.
Too little too late but nevertheless a good step.
@Lobster: "One million Rupee Warning!" No to me it looks like eye service at the cost of demotion.
@ sabi: Just a warning for misuse of public funds (for gaining personal benefit)???
I think this is quite fair and all officials involved in such acts should be punished.
Ironic ! Motorway police is the only one of the institutions which has some respect in public and its head is being demoted for wrongdoing. If the rule of wastage of public money is applied to all bureaucrats, most of them will be demoted to grade 1 and their pensions will be in negative millions !!
He probably wasn't a PMLN guy. Otherwise he would have been promoted
@sabi: One million Rupee Warning!
Topi Drama
Obviously he did not know some one powerful within the political set up otherwise he would have not been punished. Morally a right step but this should be applied across the board afterall his organization's was not the only ad in the newspaper.
for once, well done PML(N).
This is too much. A warning should have served the purpose.
Excellent step indeed...........make more of such examples and the rest of the people will become disciplined.
If this is applied to PPP Government, all the office bearers would have been demoted multiple grades