Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Umar Cheema
ISLAMABAD: The government has removed yet another officer of impeccable integrity, the Chief Commissioner, Islamabad, Shahid Mehmood, after he refused to dance to the tunes of political masters, replacing him with Tariq Pirzada.
Shahid was the man who froze the 2,400 kanal lands transferred on the name of President Asif Ali Zardari and his son in the outskirts of Islamabad. Although, he did so in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict on the NRO, his swift action on the court judgment sparked fury.
Shahid has been removed within three months after being appointed in mid-December 2009 after the government was forced to pull out Fazil Asghar. “They were uncomfortable with the man, saying no to every illegal act,” said a senior official of the Islamabad administration. Shahid was informed to pack up on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the sources, Shahid was reluctant in obliging the business interests of political masters and their non-political financiers, thus facing premature removal. As the cooperative societies come under the administrative controls, Shahid had refused many times obliging the business interests, desiring the regulation of their choice.
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