LAHORE:
Punjab interim government Monday
removed Anti-Corruption Establishment director general Brigadier
Muzaffar Ali
Ranjha (retd) from his office, said to be a blue- eyed officer of former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif. It has given the additional charge of director general Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) to
Punjab Additional Chief Secretary Tariq Najeeb Najmi. The notification of removal of Brigadier
Muzaffar Ali
Ranjha (retd) was issued Monday, the copy of which is available with The News. The notification reads that “pursuant to the approval of competent authority the contractual appointment of Brigadier
Muzaffar Ali
Ranjha (retd) as director general ACE
Punjab is hereby terminated with immediate effect in lieu of one month salary as per clause-11 of terms and conditions of his contract”.ACE director legal Sh Sohail while commenting on the issue said the contract of
Muzaffar Ali
Ranjha has been terminated due to ongoing policy of reshuffle of officers in the awake of general elections 2018. He said Ranjha’s contract was ending in July 2019 as it started in July 2016.It was a contractual appointment so
Ranjha could have not been transferred which resulted in termination of his contract, Sohail added. He categorically denied any conspiracy or other allegations behind the removal of
Muzaffar Ali Ranjha.There were rumours that appointment of
Muzaffar Ali
Ranjha as director general ACE was a reward from the PML-N government for allegedly helping the party in rigging 2013 elections. At the time of 2013 elections,
Ranjha was serving as sector commander of Military Intelligence Punjab.PTI Chairman Imran Khan in a Geo TV ‘Capital Talk’ show had alleged that a brigadier had helped Nawaz in
Punjab during the last general elections. Later, in a press talk
Muzaffar Ali
Ranjha categorically rejected allegations of Imran.However,
Ranjha admitted that former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif had appointed him as DG Anti-Corruption Establishment after seeing his work as MI
Punjab sector commander. Shahbaz told me that the way I have worked, I will even improve the work of Anti-Corruption Establishment, he further said. Shahbaz is the champion of national unity in Pakistan,
Ranjha remarked in that press talk.
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