LAHORE: Five senior bureaucrats are being tipped as the most-favourite replacements to the top establishment slots, including that of the chief secretary and inspector general of police, in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), Daily Times has learnt. Highly-placed Establishment Division sources said former Punjab Home Secretary Shahzad Hassan Pervez, a senior District Management Group (DMG) officer or the federal Economic Affairs secretary would replace NWFP Chief Secretary Shakeel Durrani while Ahsan Jhangir Khan, a senior officer of the Pakistan Police Services, is being tipped as a favourite to replace the inspector general of police, Saeed Khan. Two names of the senior-most police officers in grade 22 had also been sent to the Prime Ministerâs Secretariat for its final approval. The chances of governor rule would increase with the replacement of the top Frontier establishment. Sources said the decision had been taken because the NWFP establishment failed to stop the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) activists from destroying billboards with the images of women. Sources said the federal government had also decided to replace the chief secretary of Sindh.
Mohammad Kamran adds from Islamabad: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali held a meeting with the NWFP chief secretary and inspector general of police on Tuesday night. âThe prime minister discussed with them law and order situation in NWFP in view of the situation created by the workers and activists of MMA,â sources told Daily Times. They also discussed large-scale transfers and postings by the NWFP government and situation arising out of district nazimsâ resignations in the NWFP. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told journalists on Monday that the prime minister would himself announce top administrative changes in the NWFP within 24 hours.
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