PM seeks report about fed officers not adhering to law in Punjab, KP.

ISLAMABAD -- Taking a strong exception to the role of the federal officers posted in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in facilitating the PTI long march, and not performing their duties in accordance with the official discipline and rules of the service, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has sought details of such officers from federal intelligence agencies to penalise them in the promotion board, likely to meet in the first week of December. The meeting of the board, has been convened at a time when the promotions decided in the previous board held in mid-August have not been notified yet, due to certain reasons. Sources in the federal bureaucracy told The Nation the Prime Minister has ordered reviewing the promotions made in the previous board. PM Shehbaz Sharif, before departing to London from Egypt, ordered that a concerned committee will judge the conduct of the federal officers in the ongoing political crisis to see if they acted in accordance with the law or otherwise. The extraordinary decision on punishing the bureaucracy was taken keeping in view their partisan role in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where PTI has the government. The federal government ordered blockade of roads to prevent the long march from moving towards Islamabad, however to the utter surprise of the government, these officers including police and Pakistan Administrative Services turned a blind eye towards such orders by the federal government. The Inter-Services Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau have been directed to submit fresh reports...

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