Punjab IG seeks transfer of services as crisis over Wazirabad FIR persists.

LAHORE -- Inspector General (IG) Punjab Faisal Shahkar has requested for his services to be withdrawn from the Punjab government with "immediate effect" as a deadlock persists over the registration of an FIR against an attack on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.

In a letter to the provincial government, the IG Punjab has said that he can no longer continue to serve his duties owing to "personal reasons" and has requested to be placed at the disposal of the federal government.

On Thursday, the deposed prime minister had suffered a bullet wound to his leg after a gunman opened fire on his container as Imran was leading the PTI's 'Haqeeqi Azadi March'.

While the police had on Saturday taken another person into custody in connection with the attack on Imran and other party leaders during their long march in Punjab's Wazirabad but the case of the incident is yet to be registered despite the passage of three days.

Earlier today, a relative of the PTI chairman moved an application to register an FIR against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif...

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