HARIPUR, Jan 5: The district coordination officer has declined to issue a notification for the removal of Mankrae Union Council Naib Nazim Raja Mohammed Zubair, who was dislodged through a vote of no-confidence last month, sources said on Monday.

Mr Zubair was removed from his office when 11 councillors expressed no-confidence in him at a session convened by Nazim Maulana Matiur Rehman Qasmi last month.

They said when the minutes of the UC meeting were taken to the DCO for issuance of a notification for the removal of the naib nazim, the official refused to do so.

In August, the UC nazim had also been unseated through a no-confidence vote, but the DCO nullified the move and declared that Maulana Qasmi had obtained a three-month leave and he could not be unseated in absentia.