Summary The electoral body has also sought explanation from the Secretary Establishment over the transfers.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has cancelled transfers of Sindh Chief Secretary and MD Printing Corporation.
The electoral body has also sought explanation from the Secretary Establishment over the transfers.
The federal government on Saturday reshuffled a top bureaucrat in Sindh without seeking permission or even intimating the ECP.
Only three days ago the poll authority had barred transfers and postings in the province without its permission, with the issuance of local government polls schedule.
The ECP management stands clueless about the replacement of Ejaz Chaudhry with Sajjad Saleem Hotiana as Sindh chief secretary on Saturday. Chaudhry has been appointed as federal secretary of inter-provincial coordination.
The ECP on Wednesday had barred the government from making transfers and postings of the civil servants without commission’s approval in Punjab and Sindh, following the issuance of LG elections schedule in the two provinces where polls are to be held on December 7 and November 27.
“No transfers/postings of the civil servants shall be made after the issuance of schedule of local government elections without prior approval of the commission till the publication of election results,” one of the six points of the ECP Code of Conduct, incorporated in the LG polls schedules, states.
