ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced a major administrative reshuffle, promoting four BS-19 officers to BS-20 and transferring 54 BS-17 officials across the country with immediate effect.
The orders, issued with the approval of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), also include key postings at the provincialand secretariatlevels.
According to a notification, four officers have been promoted from BS-19 to BS-20 on a regular basis and placed on one-year probation.
The promoted officers are Mr Fazal Hakeem, Regional Election Commissioner (REC), Peshawar, who has been posted as Additional Director General (Elections-II) at the ECP Secretariat, Islamabad; Mr Abdul Haq, Director (Elections), Provincial Election Commissioner (PEC) Balochistan, who has been posted as Joint Provincial Election Commissioner (Elections), Balochistan; and Mr Khurshid Alam, Director to the Chief Election Commissioner, who has been posted as Additional Director General (ADG) to the CEC. The ECP has also upgraded and re-designated Mr Khurshid Alam’s previous BS-19 post.
Mr Nazar Abbas, ADG (Electoral Rolls) OPS, hasbeen posted as ADG (Electoral Rolls) at the ECP Secretariat and promoted to BS-20.
In a related notification, Mr Syed Waseem Ahmed Jafri, Joint PEC (Elections), BS-20, has been transferred from Balochistan to Sindh.
54 officers transferred The largest set of changes came through another notification, which ordered the transfer and posting of 54 Assistant Election Commissioners and Assistant Dire ctors in BS-17.
The transfers cover all four provinces and involve wide-scale movement between field offices and the ECP Secretariat in Islamabad. Several officers have been posted to the Secretariat in key wings, including Confidential, Protocol, HRMS, Record and Local Government Elections (LGE).
Among those transferred to the Secretariat are Ms Zoya Kanwal, posted as Assistant Director (Confidential); Ms Ayesha Hamid, posted as Assistant Director (LGE-KP); Mr Adil Ahmad Shahzad, posted as Assistant Director (Protocol); and Ms Syeda Javeria, posted as Assistant Director (HRMS). Field postings include Mr Shabbir Ahmed Shah, transferred from REC Rakhshan to DEC Kharan; Mr Imran Khan Abbasi, transferred from REC Shaheed Benazirabad to DEC Shikarpur; and Mr Shahab Siddique, transferred from DEC Bannu to PEC Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The notifications have been sent to the Printing Corporation of Pakistan Press for publication in the Gazette of Pakistan.