Former IGPs concerned over frequent transfers of police high-ups in Sindh.

KARACHI -- The Association of former inspectors general of Police (IGP) noted with concern here on Monday that increasing number of IGPs in the province were not being allowed to complete their statutory tenure. According to a press release issued here, the former IGPs said that in the last couple of years, four inspectors general of police were transferred prematurely in Punjab, three in Khyber Pakhtunkwa and three in Islamabad. In Sind, the situation is even worse as the provincial government is seemingly in a perpetual conflict with the IGP. 'The relatively long tenures of the last two IGPs in Sind were only due to frequent court interventions on public interest litigations by the city's proactive civil society,' they concurred. 'Ousting the head of a uniform force unceremoniously due to arbitrary political considerations has serious implications for the morale and performance of the personnel,' they noted. It creates a sense of uncertainty and debilitates the institution from within. In the process, effective law...