Sindh IG Allah Dino Khawaja on Wednesday offered to surrender his post before the Sindh High Court.
“I can’t continue working, I am not being allowed to do my job,” said AD Khawaja in his reply to the court. “Since the past six months, it has become very difficult for me to work,” he added.
The SHC on May 11 extended its stay order over the removal of Khawaja, restraining the provincial government from taking any action against him for five more days.
The SHC division bench, headed by Justice Munib Akhtar, put off the matter till May 16 after the plaintiff lawyer, Faisal Siddiqui, completed his arguments to keep Khawaja as the IG of police force in the province. Siddiqui said 13 police chiefs were posted and subsequently transferred in the province within a short span of time by the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government. This practice of the government should be investigated through a commission, he contended.
Replying to the comments filed by the provincial government through its advocate-general, Zameer Ghumro, he said the respondent had cited upholding of the seniority during the appointment of the police chief but itself had never maintained the same previously. He said that the provincial government had tried to replace Khawaja with a grade-21 officer, Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti. Technically, Dasti was junior to another similar scale officer, Ghulam Qadir Thebo, who currently serves as the Anti-Corruption Establishment chairperson, the lawyer remarked.
He said the IGs were mostly posted in the province on the basis of own pay scale and not on the basis of seniority. Interestingly, the provincial government has referred the matter of merit but only in this case, he added.
On April 6, the SHC bench passed an interim order, directing Khawaja to continue his duty as the provincial police chief. Since then, it is being extended by the court.
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Under PPP, Karachities and other urban Sindh areas will always suffer the way they suffered for the past 8-9 years now. The only answer for Karachi is to get rid of PPP from Sindh with a cleansing process from Supreme Court and Sindh High court on all billions of corruptions made by PPP in the last decade itslef.
I have no words on the overall performance of PPP in Sindh and still no eyes/hands are making sincere efforts to cleanse them out of Politics for so much corrupt practices and influence on all organizations to work under them and to serve them of their corrupt behavior and practices.
Quota system has to end in Sindh, otherwise, many Altaf Hussain’s will emerge and sabotage the efforts made so far.
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