LAHORE, Nov 28: A Punjab Assembly inquiry committee found Mandi Bahauddin District Coordination Officer Waheed Akhtar Ansari ‘guilty’ of misbehaviour with two MPAs and instigating his office staff to stage protest demonstrations, and recommended his immediate transfer.

Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, who headed the inquiry committee, announced this on the floor of the house on Friday.

The Punjab Assembly had formed the inquiry committee on Thursday after Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lawmakers protested against DCO’s ‘misbehaviour’ with their party men Tariq Sahi and Asim Bashir Cheema.

Mr Kaira said the committee heard the DCO and found that he exchanged words with the MPAs and later instigated his office staff to observe a strike. He even involved the media to gain sympathies.

Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah announced the DCO was being transferred immediately and added that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif wanted to announce the transfer himself, but he could not come to the house because of his engagements in Islamabad.

Some MPAs, however, said the DCO should have been suspended.

STANDING COMMITTEES: Mr Sanaullah informed the house that standing and other committees had been formed in consultation with the leader of the house, senior minister and opposition leader. He moved a motion for the approval of these committees from the house. After voting by the house, speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal announced that all members except one voted in favour of the committees. Later, the law minister moved another motion for transfer of all matters, which were given to special committees in the absence of standing and other committees, to the newly formed committees.