ISLAMABAD, April 12: The new government made on Saturday changes in the top-level bureaucracy, including the IGP Sindh and Intelligence Bureau director-general.

National Police Bureau’s Director-General Dr Shoaib Suddle was promoted to grade-22 and posted as Inspector-General Sindh, while the Joint Director-General of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Tariq Lodhi, was elevated to the post of the bureau’s DG.

According to sources in the Establishment Division, Islamabad’s Senior Superintendent Police Syed Kaleem Imam has been appointed as Chief Security Officer in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat while adviser to the Finance Division Syed Hassan Abbas Naqvi has been made deputy secretary in the secretariat.

The services of Additional Secretary Finance Mohammad Sami Saeed have been placed at the disposal of the Sindh government, while Atomic Energy Commission’s Nisar Hussain Shamsi has been promoted to grade-22 from grade-21 and asked to report in Faisalabad.

Ahmad Waqar, who was made an OSD by the caretaker government, was appointed as secretary to the Investment Division. He earlier served as the petroleum secretary.

Dr Shoaib Suddle is a senior member of the Police Service of Pakistan and has served at various important positions in the federal and provincial governments. He completed his Masters in Physics and LLB from the University of Punjab. He also obtained a Masters in Criminology from the University of Wales in Britain. Dr Suddle was awarded a doctorate in Criminology in 1988.

He is known in Pakistan and abroad as a researcher on criminal justice issues. He is member of various international organisations and was a member of the focal group on police reforms and consultant with the National Reconstruction Bureau during 1999-2001. He co-drafted the Police Order 2002.

He has also served as the Inspector-General of Police Balochistan and DIG Rawalpindi. He was DIG Karachi when Mir Murtaza Bhutto was assassinated in a police shoot-out in 1996.

The post of Intelligence Bureau chief was vacant since the resignation of Brig (retd) Ejaz Shah.

Brig Ejaz was among the people who were nominated by Benazir Bhutto as people who might kill her.

Tariq Lodhi earlier served on various important posts and is among senior-most officers of the IB. He was a wing commander in the air force who rose to the rank of brigadier in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He also served as chief of research and analysis wing during the second tenure of Ms Bhutto as prime minister.

He was sent to Germany on a diplomatic assignment during President Pervez Musharraf’s rule and appointed as the joint director-general of IB after completion of the three-year assignment. He served on the position for almost four years.

He has also served as the head of the Special Branch of the Pubjab Police.

Officials said Riaz A. Sheikh would replace Tariq Lodhi. Mr Sheikh worked in Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) during the PPP government when Naseerullah Babar was interior minister and Rehman Malik was additional DG of the FIA.