| Bureaucrats in Punjab have started visiting shrines and ‘saints’ ahead of the incoming provincial government, sources said on Tuesday. They said two secretaries visited Bari Imam shrine in Rawalpindi on March 2, adding that an important bureaucrat was seen praying in Data Darbar on Tuesday afternoon. Officers who were close to former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi are worried, and meeting with saints. On Monday, a secretary invited a ‘saint’ from Layyah district to Lahore for prayers. He also offered gifts to the ‘saint’. Senior officials from police and the Civil Secretariat were present in the gathering. The sources said that the ‘saint’ was requested to pray for the bureaucrat so that the next government does not make him an officer on special duty. |