PESHAWAR, Feb 23: The NWFP caretaker government has ordered reshuffling of senior officers of different cadres with immediate effect.

According to a notification issued here on Saturday, Waqar Ayub, provincial relief commissioner, NWFP, has been transferred and posted as commissioner for Afghan refugees in his own pay and scale. Muhammad Fahim Wazir, additional secretary home and tribal affairs, who was holding the post following the removal of erstwhile commissioner Nasir Azam Khan, has been relieved from this additional charge.

Likewise, Hussainzada Khan has been posted as provincial relief commissioner, Capt (retired) Sikandar Qayyum as chief economist planning and development department and Gulzeb Khan as reforms coordinator, finance department.

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