The future of more than 1,000 officers of Grade-20 or 21 is at stake as Establishment Division has not yet notified the new promotion policy under which the officers will get promotion.
Information available with Pakistan Today that the sole department – which is responsible for officers’ promotion and transfers – has not prepared the new promotion policy despite the Supreme Court clear cut orders.
Supreme Court in its order on March 14, 2017 stated that government would reexamine the officers’ promotions on the basis of new promotion policy.
One officer while talking to Pakistan Today said that Establishment Division did not notify the new promotion policy yet. ‘I am not clear that how the CSB under the chair of Naveed Akram Cheema will give the promotion’, he said adding if the ED has prepared the new promotion policy than what is the reason behind for not disclosing.
The CSB will today (Monday) start to reexamine the officer’s promotions who were promoted or not in May 2015 and December 2016 board meetings. One officer of Establishment Division on the condition of anonymity stated that that ED has prepared the new promotion policy but it did not want to notify as there were problems pertaining to officer promotions. He further said that new policy has ended the five number discretionary marks of prime minister which was the bone of contention in last two board meetings.
The CSB in its May 2015 meeting had promoted Fawad Hassan Fawad, Rehmatullah Wazir, Shafqat Jalil, Khawaja Tenveer Ahmad, Dr Amir, Dr Tariq, Raja Sultan Sikandar and many others to Grade-21. However, some officers went to court against the prime minister’s decision furthermore same kind of fate was happened to December 2016 CSB decision and officers again went to Islamabad High Court. On March 14, the case was eventually ended in favour of those officers who were not promoted and IHC ordered the government to reexamine the officer’s promotion within one month.
Sources close to development told Pakistan Today that prime minister called on the high promotion board meeting in last week on the wish of Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Fawad Hassan Fawad because Fawad has completed its two years in Grade-21 and he wanted promotion for himself to Grade-22 before the CSB meeting.
FPSC Chairman Naveed Akram Cheema resisted this action and he conveyed the relevant authorities that once the CSB meeting held on June 19 and if the board ratifies the promotions then Fawad should be promoted to 22.
In the meanwhile, Joint investigation team (JIT) formed by SC called on Prime Minister Nawaz on Thursday to investigate the wrongdoings in Sharif family wealth transactions which extended the HPPB meeting to next month.
Now sources said that the meeting will be held in July in which Fawad and few others will get promotion due to closeness to the ruling family.
