ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: In a major reshuffle, the federal government on Saturday changed the top brass of Islamabad administration, including the chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the IG police.
Kamran Lashari, a grade-20 officer of the District Management Group (DMG), presently working with the Punjab government, has been appointed as the CDA chairman in place of Chaudhry Abdul Rauf.
Fayyaz Toru, the additional deputy director general, Intelligence Bureau, NWFP, has been made new Inspector General of Police (IGP), Islamabad, replacing Chaudhry Mohammad Akram. According to the sources, Chaudhry Akram has been made an OSD.
The sources said the IG had been replaced by the interior minister after getting reports on violence in the capital following the murder of MNA Maulana Azam Tariq. The district administration and the police had been holding each other responsible for the damage caused to the public and private property and injuries to the citizens during the violence.
The IG has been changed only one day after the interior minister, Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat, sought a report from the police high-ups on killing of MNA Maulana Azam Tariq and a student in the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU).
The SSP also held a meeting with the interior minister on Friday and briefed him on the law and order situation in the federal capital and the progress in the inquiry being conducted in the above-mentioned two incidents. The sources said the minister was not satisfied with the law and order situation and security arrangements in Islamabad.
The newly-appointed CDA chairman, Kamran Lashari, considered to be the main architect of food streets in Lahore, was associated with the Environment Protection Department, Punjab. He was also among the pioneers of the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA).
Mr Lashari is assuming the office of the CDA chairman amid the reports on existence of a large number of fake housing societies in the capital. Following the reports, the government also froze accounts of some of the housing societies. These reports have created great unrest among the people, particularly those belonging to middle class, who have already invested billions of rupees in such housing schemes. It will be a challenge for the newly-appointed CDA chairman to launch a crackdown on these fake housing societies to recover the huge amount, deposited by the people.