KARACHI: Karachi Additional Inspector General (AIG) Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar on Wednesday was removed from the position and transferred to report to the Sindh Central Police Office (CPO).
A notification was issued in this regard by the Sindh office Inspector General Amjad Javed Saleemi. Furthermore, the notification said, “Mahar has been transferred and directed to report to Sindh Central Police Office (CPO)”.
It was reported that Mahar, a BS-21 officer wrote a letter to the IG and Sindh government two days after the July 25 elections, stating that the three-year period of his tenure had expired. The transfer notification was issued subsequently.
In July 2015, Mahar was appointed as the Karachi police chief after AIG Ghulam Qadir Thebo was transferred from the post.
In July 2017, AIG Mahar was transferred and appointed as traffic police chief amid reservations of some stakeholders about the targeted operations underway in Karachi.
Just five weeks after the major reshuffle in the police hierarchy, however, the Sindh government had changed the city police chief again by bringing back AIG Mahar in place of AIG Thebo, who was then transferred and posted as AIG Traffic.
Other appointments and transfers in the Sindh provincial administration included Manzoor Qadir being removed as DG Sindh Building Control Authority and Saqib Soomro being removed as the city administrator.
