PESHAWAR, Jan 16: The establishment and administration department of the North West Frontier Province has, through a notification, announced the transfer of three senior officers.

Dr Muhammad Bashir, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been transferred to the position of director-general in the same organisation against a vacant post.

Amjad Shahid Afridi, secretary of the science and technology and information technology department, has been transferred and posted as the director of the Computerisation of Land Records of Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan project against a vacant post in addition to holding his previous office. Nasir Azam, director of the South FATA Development project has been transferred and posted as the commissioner for Afghan Refugees, NWFP, in his own pay and scale.

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