ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – The civic agency in Islamabad has repatriated an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official who joined it on deputation in April last year.
The official, who was posted as the director general for administration until Feb 9, was under investigation for harassing a woman in an elevator.
A surveillance camera installed at the Pak-China Friendship Centre however captured all this. The case was then reported to the Capital Development Authority.
Initially, the CDA repatriated the officer to the ISI without giving a reason. CDA wrote a letter on Feb 9 to the Cabinet Division and the ISI stated that the officer, “presently posted as director general (administration), CDA, on deputation basis, is hereby repatriated to his parent department, i.e. directorate general Inter Services Intelligence, government of Pakistan, Islamabad and struck off the strength of CDA with immediate effect (sic)”.
Sources in the CDA claimed the inquiry report was not sent to Cabinet Division at the accused officer’s behest and that the authority repatriated his services without mentioning the allegations.
On Feb 20, a deputy secretary of the Cabinet Division issued a letter to the CDA chairman, saying that “it is decided with the approval of the Cabinet Division secretary that… CDA may be allowed to continue his (ISI’s officer) service in CDA as director general (administration) till the completion of his deputation for the period of three years. This issues with the approval of secretary Cabinet Division for immediate compliance.”
A senior CDA official told Dawn that when the letter arrived, the CDA chairman was very annoyed with the officers who had suggested that the ISI officer’s ‘misconduct’ not be mentioned.
Taking a bold stand, the CDA chairman Maroof Afzal opposed the Cabinet Division decree and in response to the latter’s letter, wrote back saying, “I am directed to refer Cabinet Division’s letter… and to inform that … (the official) was repatriated to his parent department on Feb 9, 2015 on the ground of serious allegations and misconduct so his further retention would not be in the interest of the authority.
Moreover, the new officer has been posted who had already assumed the charge of the post (sic).”
The letter went on to say: “It is therefore, once again requested that he may be repatriated and Establishment Division may kindly be requested to issue his repatriation orders. This issues with the approval of chairman CDA.”
Thought the CDA’s letter bears the same date, Feb 20, as the letter that is received from the Cabinet Division, the letter was actually delivered to the Cabinet Division on Feb 23.
The CDA’s seriousness in this matter can be gauged by the fact that the earlier letter was signed by a deputy director of CDA’s Human Resources Development Directorate, while the latest letter was signed by Director General Nadeem Akbar Malik.
