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The Punjab government on Thursday approved a two-week leave of the top provincial police chief, Aaj News reported.

Inspector General (IG) of the Punjab Police Faisal Shahkar had applied for leave to perform Umrah.

The development comes after Shahkar requested for his services to be withdrawn from the Punjab government with “immediate effect”.

In a letter sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) and chief secretary Punjab on Sunday, the provincial police chief had expressed his inability to continue his current assignments citing “personal reasons”.

“I am writing to convey that due to personal reasons, it is not possible for me to continue on my current assignments. It is; therefore, requested that services may kindly be withdrawn with immediate from Government of the Punjab and placed at the disposal of the Federal Government,” reads the letter.

Sources said that the IG Punjab expressed reservations over the names being mentioned in the FIR which ultimately led to the deepening of rifts between him and the coalition Punjab government.

Reportedly, PTI is not happy with the IG Punjab as the party wanted to name a senior military official in the FIR involving a gun attack on Imran Khan.

A deadlock over the registration of a case continued following the refusal by PTI Chairman Imran Khan to withdraw the name of a senior army officer from the complaint.

Punjab IGP seeks transfer as ‘FIR crisis’ deepens

Last week, ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan suffered multiple bullet wounds to his leg after a gunman opened fire on his container as he was leading the PTI’s ‘Haqeeqi Azadi March’.

PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi, son of Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, held a meeting with PTI Chairman Imran Khan at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Lahore, on Sunday and discussed matters pertaining to the registration of FIR following an attack on Khan and other party leaders.

Sources said the former premier directed Moonis to remove IGP Faisal from his post and he assured Khan of implementing his direction.

On Saturday, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi had urged the IGP to resign from the post saying that if he “cannot register an FIR against the attack(s) on Imran Khan then he should leave the post”.

Faisal was appointed the new IG of the Punjab Police in July. He previously served as the Inspector General of the Pakistan Railways Police (PRP).

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khuddadad Choudhrey Nov 10, 2022 08:32pm
what a cowardly way to run away and place the name of holiest of holies in Islam as an excuse. I bet they have compromising evidence against all high up. what a shame full way to run a government. Individuals' indiscretions should be made known to agencies to protect the nation from foreign agents but used by them to blackmail their own crew.
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Shaheen Akhtar Ali Nov 11, 2022 02:47am
I have stated many times that if we had an honest fair professional legal & police system in Pakistan that does not work on bribes/rishwats, corruption and lies etc people would get insaaf and justice , there is no insaaf and justice in Pakistan it's those with power and money that have the influence . I know from personal experience as an overseas Pakistani from UK that my FIR was never registered by police in Lahore on a Pakistani gang that looted my money 9 crore 14 lac 61,000 by business and marriage trap I went to 9 police officers in Lahore on my 3 applications to police ranging from DIG opperations to SP, DSP, ASI, SHO not one of them did FIR criminal breech of trust 406 FIR I had all evidences not one single police officer looked at evidences in fact majority were rude, batmeez, arrogant they don't listen to females they certainly don't look at real evidences all they did was listen to the head gang member who looted my money and his friend who is a police officer and together lie to police, make jootai/ false application against me to try to get me arrested and in jail! One is a looter and one a dishonest police officer a sub inspector who in actual fact was suspended few yrs ago by the then IG Punjab for non registration of FIR, lies, burking and this individual is still serving as a police officer ! Shameful system I say it needs a major overhaul and nalaik useless lying dishonest , corrupt, Rishwat eating police officers get kicked out of services they probably don't even know that POLICE abbreviation means Public officer for legal investigations and criminal emergencies ! They need to start acting as Police and not filling their back pockets with Rishwat money and justice not served . Pakistan is not going to advance it's still in prehistorical ages many Asian countries have progressed well over Pakistan about time corruption and Rishwat system ended and those that are corrupt are bought to justice and no one is immune to law even if it is a government member of any party the police must use there own brains act according to law and not be influenced by external pressures on rishwats, threats, transfers they should not be influenced by government members pressurising them, look at real honest evidences and honest facts and act according to law I don't know why IG Punjab Pakistan did not do FIR I would have thought FIR should have been registered and investigated an assassination attempt was made on ex prime minister who paid for bullets do
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