Rana Altaf Majeed, a Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) official of grade 20 awaiting appointment since March 2010, is likely to be inducted as the Sindh inspector general (IG), it is learnt.
The decision was taken by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Majeed is likely to assume his charge before of just after Ashura.
A source told Pakistan Today that Majeed was about to leave for the US for two weeks when he was told by the PM’s Secretariat about the appointment. He was also told that a formal announcement would be made anytime soon.
“The intensity of this emergent induction can be gauged from the fact that when Majeed insisted to go abroad before assuming charge of his office he was refused,” he maintained.
Majeed is also said to be in the PPP leadership’s good books. In his last term, Sindh CM Qaim Ali Shah requested former president Asif Zardari to appoint Majeed as the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman to curb media criticism. He has also served as the PEMRA director general (Enforcement).
During the last government, the PPP offered him to become Balochistan IG, Azad and Jammu Kashmir IG or the PEMRA chairman, but he refused. It is feared that his appointment would create differences between the PML-N and the PPP.
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