ISLAMABAD: (DNA) – A day after the Supreme Court of Pakistan disposed of Pakpattan DPO case following an unconditional apology from the Punjab chief minister and others, the prime minister on Tuesday removed the provincial police chief in violation of the superior judiciary’s rulings in AD Khawaja and Anita Turab cases and in breach of the PTI’s commitment of depoliticising the bureaucracy.

Informed sources said the transfer order of reputed IGP Muhammad Tahir Khan was issued when he refused to change some police officers in the province on the whims and wishes of the government.

Khan was appointed the IG Punjab by the PTI government only a month ago. Information Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain as saying that the IGP was not implementing the government directions and was thus removed.