The decision to sack those reemployed affected about 45 retired officers working in the province at key posts.

Among them six were in BS-21, 17 in BS-20, 12 in BS-19, and 10 in BS-18. They included eight retired brigadiers, four Lt Colonels, two majors, 20 from the provincial service officers, 10 police officers and a judge.

Prominent among them were: Anti-Corruption Establishment Director General Brig Aslam Ghumman (retired), CMIT Chairman Brig Arslan (retired), Cooperatives Board of Liquidation Chairman Muhammad Farooq Mann, CMIT Members Ikram Bari Cheema and Brig Tauqir Qamar (retired), PCS Member former IGP Jehanzeb Burki .

Some others are Sargodha DCO Hameed Amjad Warriach, Special Branch AIG Tahir Anwar Pasha, DIG/ Project Manager, Elite Force, Pervaiz Rahim Rajput, AIG (Legal) Salim Sikandar Chahal, Lahore CIA SP Masood Aziz, Gujranwala Traffic SP Asghar Saeed Pal Mando, Multan Traffic SSP Rehmatullah Warriach, Toba Tek Singh DPO Raja Munawwar Hussain, DIG (Jails) Muhammad Afzal Gujjar, Interrogation Expert, Crime Investigation Department, Qamar Zaman, SP (Investigation) Ghulam Muhammad Kalyar, SP (VVIP Security), Special Branch, Syed Aftab Ijaz, and Rawalpindi Additional SP Muhammad Suleman,

Mines and Minerals Secretary Imtiaz Ahmad, Punjab Teachers Foundation Managing Director Saadia Naseem, and Sargodha EDO (Literacy) Mubashar Ahmed Bajwa were also among the affected.

A senior officer said the fate of those working in foreign-funded projects like Mr Humayun Farshori would be decided later. A team was checking the viability of all the projects and those found not suitable would be wound up, he added.

Similarly, he said, the cases of consultants like Mr Aminullah Chaudhry and former chief secretary Hafeez Akhtar Randhawa, who was employed on contract basis, were also being reviewed. — IH