KHAIRPUR, July 14: A group of Nazimeen of the taluka and union councils of Khairpur district have said the district Nazim should be consulted before transfer of any officer and appealed to Sindh governor to stop the proposed transfer of the officers immediately.

In a joint statement issued here on Saturday, the Nazimeen, Dr Hassan Ali Solangi, Gul Bozdar, Abdul Latif Shah, Khalid Shaikh, Syed Bachal Shah, Syed Khadim Hussain Shah, Rais Kashif Hussain Shah and Nisar Khaskheli, said Khairpur district had undergone rapid development following the devolution system but some people did not acknowledge the success of the new local government system.

These people, the Nazimeen said, had approached higher authorities for the transfer of some officers who had played an important role in the development of the district.

Adds our Shikarpur correspondent: The district Nazim, Shikarpur, Mohammed Arif Khan Mehar, has raised objections against the direct transferring and posting of officers by the government without consulting him.

The Nazim told this scribe here the other day that this had undermined the position of the elected Nazimeen.

He expressed concern over the transfers of some officers from Shikarpur District by the Sindh Government without taking him into confidence, although he had requested President Pervez Musharraf and the governor, Sindh, regarding it.

He has again appealed to President Musharraf and the governor, Sindh, that the transfers and postings of the officers and other staff of the central and provincial departments working under the control of the district government be made after taking him into confidence.

He said the district Nazim was the head of the district government and he was responsible for getting all development and other people’s welfare programmes and policies of the government implemented in the district. He said that the transfers and postings on political basis would adversely affect the ongonig development works.