Aftab Sultan resigns as NAB chairman


Aftab Sultan resigned as the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday citing 'personal reasons'

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) confirmed Sultan's resignation in a short statement

"The Chairman National Accountability Bureau, Mr

Aftab Sultan presented his resignation to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif citing personal reasons

" The statement added that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif "appreciated the services" of Sultan and "lauded his honesty and uprightness"

"Upon his insistence, the Prime Minister reluctantly accepted the resignation of Mr

Sultan

" The former director general of the Intelligence Bureau had been appointed to as NAB chief by the federal cabinet in July last year

Sultan, a retired Police Service of Pakistan officer who has a reputation of being honest, earlier served as IGP Punjab and the commandant of the National Police Academy

PML-N supremo and former premier Nawaz Sharif appointed Sultan as the head of the Intelligence Bureau in 2013 because of being an upright official

He retired as the IB chief on April 3, 2018, after serving since June 7, 2013

Sultan was the one who, being a senior police officer deployed in Sargodha during the Musharraf regime, had refused to help him in the 2002 referendum

In return, Sultan was demoted to the rank of an officer on special duty

In addition, Sultan was also chosen by former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani of the PPP, making him the only officer who served with two different governments

Apart from Sharif and Gilani, Sultan has also served under former premiers Raja Pervez Ashraf and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Sultan is a law graduate from Punjab University, who later did LLM from the University of Cambridge and also MSc in jurisprudence/legal studies from the University of Edinburgh



Date:22-Feb-2023 Reference:View Original Link