CM's aide promises action against inefficient officials.

MANSEHRA -- Adviser to the chief minister on culture and tourism Zafar Mehmood on Thursday said punitive action would be taken against officials not resolving the people's issues.

He told reporters here that the Election Commission of Pakistan had allowed the caretaker government to transfer officials until the schedule for the provincial assembly's elections was announced.

'Until the ECP notifies [PA's] election schedule, the caretaker chief minister and his cabinet members can reshuffle bureaucracy or notify officials as OSDs for bad performance,' he said.

Mr Mehmood said that he had warned heads and officials of the communication and works department, tehsil municipal administrations, National Highway Authority and other departments to complete development schemes by March 30 to prevent action.

Says bureaucracy can be reshuffled until election schedule issued

He said that he also met the district police officers here and other parts of Hazara division and asked them to crack down on outlaws, land grabbers and drug peddlers in their respective areas.

'Our government wants to make this province free from narcotics and their dealers, who are destroying our future [youth]. They should be taken to task,' he said.

The CM aide said that hurdles to development projects won't be tolerated and those responsible for it would also be dealt with strictly.

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