As many as 18 officers between grades 20 and 22 have been made officers on special duty (OSDs) by the federal government, some of them due to bad performance and the others because the people at the helm of affairs disliked them.
According to official documents available with the news agency, those who have been made OSDs, include Nadeem Ashraf (grade 22) of secretariat group, Tariq Khokhar, Akhtar Hussain Khan Gorchani, Muhammad Anwar Virk and Iqbal Mahmood (grade 21), and Muhammad Azam Khan, Aftab Ahmed Cheema, Capt (retd) Usman Zikriya, Syed Imtiaz Altaf (grade 20) of police service, Sajid Siddique, Rashid Mansoor, Mian Muhammad Zulqurnain, Zafar Iqbal Sheikh, Mian Asad Hayauddin and Imran Nasir Khan (grade 20) of Pakistan administrative service, and Abdul Rauf Khan, Muhammad Khursheed and Rashid Manzoor of secretariat group (grade 20).
Those, who are awaiting posting, are Sardar Abdul Majeed Khan and Muhammad Amleesh (grade 21), and Ghani-ur-Rehman (grade 20) of police service, Zafar Iqbal (grade 21), Muhammad Hashim Tareen, Hameed Yaqub Sheikh, Usman Ali and Aziz-ur-Rehman (grade 20) of Pakistan administrative service.