KARACHI, March 5: The Karachi police chief, Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari, has been posted as the new Provincial Police Officer, Sindh, with immediate effect and till further orders.

A notification issued by the establishment division stated that Mr Leghari, a BS-21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan who is currently serving in Sindh, is posted as the Sindh police chief in his own pay and scale with immediate effect and until further orders.

The new PPO was appointed in place of Salahuddin Babar Khattak — a superannuated officer re-employed for a second time as Sindh police chief on a contract basis — who was shown the door last month by the government to comply with a directive of the Supreme Court.

Mr Leghari was appointed the Capital City Police Officer, Karachi, in September last year in place of the then CCPO Waseem Ahmed, who was given the prized posting of director general of the Federal Investigation Agency.

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