HYDERABAD, Nov 4: Former Sindh chief minister Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who is also PML Sindh president, expressed his annoyance over recent reshuffling in police department in Hyderabad district and spoke to the Regional Police Officer (RPO) Hyderabad, Fayyaz Leghari, on Monday following complaints by local PML leaders including Hyderabad district president.

He also asked the RPO to review the reshuffling, party sources confided to Dawn on Tuesday.

Witnesses said that the former chief minister also spoke to Sindh Governor Dr.Ishrat-ul- Ibad Khan and former adviser for home department, Wasim Akhtar in this regard.

“You have always been working against us and you have posted PPP-backed police officers in the district”, the source quoted former CM telling the RPO of Hyderabad region. Dr.Arbab Rahim asked him to remain neutral in the electoral exercise.

Before speaking to Sindh governor and former provincial adviser for home affairs, Dr Rahim also spoke to a senior officer of an elite law enforcing agency.

Interestingly, the RPO Fayyaz Leghari is the same police officer whom the former CM had accused of having relations with a man running an underworld network in Karachi. The cell phone of the RPO remained unattended.

“It was just a discussion with Arbab saheb about recent police postings and I heard his viewpoint in detail”, former adviser on home affairs Wasim Akhtar told Dawn.

Almost all the local frontline leaders of PML, including his former adviser Nuzhat Pathan, district president of PML, Mir Sher Mohammad Talpur and Shahabuddin Shah Hussaini, PML’s candidate from NA-221 Hyderabad district, met Dr.Arbab Ghulam Rahim when he visited Hussaini’s residence on Monday to sort out issues related to distribution of PML tickets in Hyderabad and other districts.

Ms Pathan, who was elected as MPA on PPP ticket, switched her loyalties to PML and subsequently became CM’s adviser without any portfolio, complained that police officials were posted in Hyderabad district without consent of the local PML leadership. Her opinion was that these police officials might influence results of different constituencies. She is again vying for a reserved seat on a PML ticket that has been committed to her.