Amir Zulfiqar appointed new Islamabad IG Police

Federal Government has appointed amir Zulfiqar as the Islamabad Inspector General Police (IGP).

Zulfiqar is an officer of the Police Service Pakistan (PSP) group and has served as IG Motorway Police.

His other postings including IG Operations Punjab, DIG Operations Punjab, DIG CTD Punjab, RPO Multan, CPO Multan, SSP Special Branch Lahore, SSP Operations Lahore among other designations.

Earlier, the Supreme Court suspended an order transferring IGP Islamabad Jan Muhammad. The apex court was hearing the case pertaining to the transfer after it was reported that Muhammad had been removed after he allegedly refused to take action on a complaint by Federal Minister Azam Swati’s son.

Jan Muhammad who had resumed charge as the IGP a day earlier, appeared before the Supreme Court and excused himself from performing his duties.

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, while taking a suo moto notice, had suspended the ‘unlawful’ transfer of the Islamabad police chief after it emerged that he had been removed from the post following verbal directives from Prime Minister Imran Khan.

On Friday, however, Jan Mohammad appeared reluctant to resume charge of his duties in Islamabad, after which the court removed its earlier suspension of the directives for the IGP’s transfer.

Jan Mohammad, a retired lieutenant, and a BS-20 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), was posted out from the force and his services were surrendered to the Establishment Division.

On Thursday, the Sup­reme Court had rejected the federal government’s plea for the appointment of a new inspector general of Islamabad police.