KARACHI, Aug 18: The post of Director General Sindh Sports Board (SSB), that was upgraded to BPS 20 about five months back, has fallen vacant following retirement of Ghulam Akbar Shah Bokhari last Wednesday.

“A notification to this effect has already been issued by Section Officer (General) Sports and Youth Affairs,” informed sources confided to Dawn on Monday.

Bokhari joined the SSB as director in 1994 and was elevated to the post of Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs, Sindh in 2006 where he served until March this year before being reverted to his original post.

The sources said though Bokhari has packed up, he had not given charge either to the Deputy Director (BPS 18) or Assistant Director (BPS 17) who was working under him.

Information reveals that post of an Additional Secretary (BPS 19) and three Assistant Directors (BPS 17) are also lying vacant in the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, Sindh, as Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) has not met since long.

The five-member DPC was scheduled to meet on July 31 but Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs and Additional Secretary, S&GAD did not turn up for reasons best known to them.

Meanwhile, in a surprise development, an elder brother of PPP Senator Raza Rabbani has been appointed Assistant Director in the SSB on the instructions of a ‘competent authority’.

In yet another development, a summary is also being moved under which the powers of SSB Chairman are said to be transferred from Sindh Governor to the Sindh Chief Minister.