LAHORE
\nAn alleged conversation between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Yasmin Rashid and former Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar is the latest addition to the series of audio leaks.
\nThe latest audio began with exchange of formal greetings between the former health minister and ex-Lahore police chief before Ms Yasmin makes a question about his restoration as Lahore CCPO.
\n\u201cTell me some good news, if you have received reinstating orders,\u201d she asked apparently referring to the Friday\u2019s ruling of the Supreme Court that has suspended the interim government\u2019s notification to transfer him. To which, Mr Dogar replied in negative.
\nWhen she asked \u201cwhat are their [government] plans,\u201d the former Lahore police chief told her about the process, stating an order would be dispatched after the apex court\u2019s judge signatures. Then, she told him that PTI Chairman Imran Khan was concerned about him.
\nApparently talking about the government\u2019s plans to arrest the PTI chief, Ms Rashid asked him whether \u201ctonight would be calm\u201d. And Mr Dogar replied, \u201cInshallah, all will be okay\u201d.
\nThe Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday suspended a notification issued by the Punjab interim government to transfer Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar. A three-member bench, headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan and comprising Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice Muneeb Akhtar, reinstated Dogar as Lahore CCPO while issuing ruling on a petition against his transfer.
\nDuring the hearing, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary said the Punjab government made an oral request to transfer Dogar on Jan 23, adding that it received written application on Jan 24. The secretary said the electoral body accepted the request on Feb 6. Justice Muneeb remarked that the ECP received oral request, approved and then implemented it. \u201cDoes government institutions run on oral communication?\u201d he questioned.
\nPreviously, the top court had reinstated Dogar as Lahore police chief in December last after he was suspended by the federal government in November after PTI protesters stormed the Punjab Governor\u2019s House following an attack on Imran Khan in Wazirabad.
\nThe BS-21 officer was at the centre of the feud between the federal and the then Punjab government under Chaudhry Parvez Elahi. The issue of his transfer stemmed in September 2022 when the federal government recalled his services in a surprise move after he booked two PML-N ministers and other officials on terrorism charges. However, the move was blocked by Mr Elahi, then Punjab chief minister, saying the federal government could not transfer him. Later, the PDM-led federal government suspended him in November last for failing to ensure security of the Governor House.
\nThe CCPO challenged his suspension in the Lahore High Court but it declared his petition inadmissible due to limitations of its jurisdiction. He later moved the Federal Services Tribunal (FST) where a single bench reinstated him on Nov 10. Later, the Establishment Division challenged the FST\u2019s Nov 10 verdict, requesting the bench to roll back the previous decision of the tribunal and form a large bench to hear the case. On Nov 25, a two-member FST bench suspended an earlier decision of reinstating Dogar as CCPO.
\nThe matter was then taken to the apex court which restored him on Dec 2, 2022. Then on Jan 23, the caretaker Punjab government replaced Dogar with Bilal Siddique Kamyana as the new Lahore CCPO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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