PM has authority to dismiss any civil servant: Chaudhry

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday defended PM Imran’s move to transfer Islamabad IG police by claiming that the premier was within his executive jurisdiction.

Speaking to the media in Islamabad, the information minister commented on the transfer of Islamabad Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Jan Muhammad and asked, “How is it possible that an IGP does not answer a federal minister’s phone call?”

“It is not acceptable that chief secretaries and IGPs do not answer their phones,” he said. “The matter regarding not answering phone calls is not an issue of the government and opposition,” the information minister added.

Stating that the IGPs are answerable to the prime minister and the chief minister of the respective province, Chaudhry said, “A narrative is being spread that if officers do not receive phone calls they will become heroes. This is not right.”

He further said that opposition was over blowing the issue and it was merely a routing matter.