MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 22: The AJK government on Saturday repatriated a federal government employee allegedly after his transfer and posting against a senior post here had triggered unrest among the local official hierarchy.

Waseem Mukhtar Chaudhry, a BPS-19 official of the district management group, was transferred and posted by the Establishment Division (ED) against the BPS-20 post of secretary AJK planning and development department last month. The move, which disconcerted the local official hierarchy, was challenged in the High Court by the incumbent secretary P&D department. The court halted the operation of the ED notification, but in the meanwhile, the government posted Mr Chaudhry against another BPS-20 post as head of a World Bank funded project.

Sources told Dawn that the posting and transfer of Mr Chaudhry was made by the Establishment Division “unceremoniously and in complete violation of relevant rules” and the very fact was also endorsed by some intelligence agencies in their reports to the federal government.