KARACHI: The Sindh government, acting on the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, on Thursday removed several officers of the provincial police department who had been serving on own pay scale (OPS) including Karachi's police chief AIGP Shahid Hayat, DawnNews reported.

Ghulam Qadir Thebo was posted as the new city police chief in place of Shahid Hayat.

The officers removed from their posts included four additional IGs and four DIGs.