ISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday a list of nine senior officers serving in the Police Department and the Federal Investigation Agency on the contract basis.

The list, filed in compliance with the court orders, contains the names of Sindh IG Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak (BS-22), FIA Director-General Waseem Ahmed (BS-21), Intelligence Bureau Joint Director Tariq Jameel (BS-21), Sindh DIG Khurram Gulzar, Larkana DIG Din Mohammad Baloch, Railways Lahore AIG Mian Akhtar Hayat, IB Director Asghar Mahmood, Gilgit-Baltistan DIG Farman Ali and Nadir Hussain Khoso.

On Thursday, a six-judge special bench hearing complaints about mismanagement in the Haj operations had ordered Establishment Secretary Chaudhry Abdul Rauf to furnish by Friday the list of contractual officers.

The bench had criticised the appointments and decided that it would summon such officers before the court and ask them to explain under what authority they had been appointed and why notifications of their appointments should not be cancelled.

“It is indeed very strange that in disciplinary forces like police and the FIA where people have to work in a well-defined discipline persons supervising the forces have been permitted and are holding the charge on a contract basis,” the court lamented.

Pointing towards Attorney-General Maulvi Anwarul Haq, the court said that it was in the interest of the government to promote and encourage junior officers waiting for promotion, instead of employing persons on contract unless their services were indispensable, particularly with regard to forces like police and the FIA.