ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has once again directed the Establishment Division to transfer the deputy commissioner and the inspector general of police Islamabad without further delay.

In another letter to the secretary Establishment Division, the additional director general (Election-I) said: “In continuation of this office letter of even dated 24 October 2023 (copy enclosed) on the subject cited above, I am directed to state that, it was required to send a compliance report regarding transfer/posting of the remaining officers of ICT/Administration/Police who have not been transferred till that date, but the same has not yet been received in this office.”

“It is once again directed to transfer IG Police and Deputy Commissioner ICT without further delay under intimation to this office,” it added.

Earlier, in a letter to the secretary Establishment Division, the ECP had said, “in continuation of this office letter dated August 17, 2023, I am directed to state that the remaining officer of ICT Administration and Police who have not so far been transferred may immediately be replaced.”

In this regard, the secretary Establishment Division was advised to take up the matter with the secretary interior on priority basis for transfer of the officers and send a compliance report to the ECP.

Sources in the Establishment Division and the police said most of the senior officers of the police and administration, including IGP, DIGs, SSPs, the deputy commissioner and assistant commissioners, were posted in the capital by the previous PDM coalition government.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2023

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