RAWALPINDI, March 1: As many as 82 officials of Customs, Sales Tax & Central Excise have been transferred on the orders of Central Board of Revenue, an official source said on Thursday.

Soon after the transfer order of the second secretary reached the office of Rawalpindi Customs Collectorate, the collector and additional collector held an emergency meeting to review the situation, the source said and added, on the other hand, panic spread among the affected officers.

As many as 14 superintendents of customs (SCs), 24 deputy superintendents (DSCs) and 44 inspectors were transferred from the Rawalpindi Customs Collectorate to ST&CE Collectorate and vice versa, the official source said.

The transferred SCs and DSCs included Ashiq Bukhari, Athar Bukhari, Bashir Ahmed, Gul Mohammad, Raja Karamat, Sohail Ahmed, Zafar Baig, Jahanzaib Sohail, Sohail Quraishi, Mohammad Bashir Khan, Tariq Mehmood Awan, Khalid Mehmood, Khurshid Ahmed, Raja Khurshid, Hassan Akhtar, Mohammad Ibrahim, Hussain, Saleem Haider, Khalid Mehmood Hashmi, Niaz Rasool, Masroor Usmani, Mian Mohammad Yasin, Mohammad Rashid, Chaudhry Haq Nawaz, Niaz Rasool, Naseer Kiani, Aminullah, Ihsanullah, Inamul Haq, Ghulam Fareed, Akhtar Anjum, Ghulam Fareed, Gul Mohammad and Piogul.

The inspectors transferred from the Collectorate of Customs to that of ST&CE were Ghulam Noeh, Mohammad Aslam, Mohammad Ismail, Afsar Amin, Moeed Mohammad Khan, Anwar Baig, Raja Mohammad Iqbal, Aurangzeb Shaheen, Tanveere Mustafa, Mohammad Zahir, Effan Younas, Mohammad Tahir, Rasheed Saeed, Khanvez Khan, Obaidul Haq, Awal Dad, Mohammad Muslim, Abdul Majeed Nasir, Mohammad Basharat, Zille Abbas, Abdul Rahim and Rahila Nisar.