The Punjab bureaucracy link ispredominantly divided into three groups and the most powerful group amongthem is the group that enjoys the blessings of Punjab Chief Minister SardarUsman Buzdar, said a special report prepared by Senior Reporter QaisarKhokhar for City42Digital, a sister organization of 24NewsHD TV channel.
According to the report, there are three prominent groups in bureaucracynamely: Tahir Khurshid (TK) group, Jawad Rafiq Malik Group which is Punjabchief secretary’s group and the third group is Nawaz Sharif loyalists’group who had worked with Shehbaz Sharif during his tenure in Punjab. TheTK Group has got the blessing of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar.
In the past, Nasir Mehmood Group and Nasir Mehmood Khosa Group had beenactive in Punjab. The prominent personalities like Fawad Hassan Fawad,Sikandar Sultan Raja and Dr Tauqeer Shah had been the part of Javed Mehmoodgroup. But after that Nasir Mehmood Khosa group came into existence inwhich officers like Shahid Mehmood, Dr Shujat Ali and Tariq Bajwa becameprominent. Nasir Mehmood remained chief secretary for 3 ½ years andshowered undue favors on his group.
The most prominent member of TK group is Additional Secretary Punjab IramBukhari. Ms Iram is grade 21 officer and she will be promoted to grade 22soon after the budget. The second most important figure of TK group isSecretary Energy Muhammad Amir Jan who is quite influential in the groupand enjoys Chief Minister Usman Buzdar’s trust. The third prominent figureof TK group is Saleha Saeed. She is DG excise and is grade 19 officer.
Another key figure in KT group is Zafar Nasarullah who is the secretaryhousing. He also enjoys a very good relationship with Punjab CM and PunjabCS. Noorul Amin Mengal also belongs to KT Group. It is believed that TahirKhurshid brought Mengal to Punjab and appointed him as secretary localbodies and he basks in special attention of TK group. Waqas Ali Mehmood issecretary excise and taxation. He is in the good books of Chief MinisterBuzdar as he is holding a very important government office.[image: Loading video]
LDA DG Lahore, Ahmad Aziz Tarar, Secretary Local Bodies Mengal and DCLahore Mudassar Riaz Malik now have become part of the kitchen cabinet ofTK group. The trio takes its directions from TK group and all decisions aretaken on the advice of TK group.
The second group is that of Chief Secretary Punjab Jawad Rafiq Malik’sGroup. This group is regarded somewhat a weak group as compared to TKgroup. But this group still exists in Punjab and the most important memberof this group is Secretary Higher Education Nadeem Mehboob who enjoys goodrapport with chief secretary Punjab. Another prominent member is WajihUllah Kundi who is currently undertaking a staff training course. The thirdimportant member of the group is Secretary I&C Ahsan Bhutta who enjoysspecial blessings of the group members and chief secretary.
Saima Saeed is another key member of Rafiq Malik group and she is known asspecial officer of the CS. She handles administrative affairs of the CS.Secretary Labor Ahmed Javed Qazi also belongs to this group. When CS RafiqMalik was commissioner Lahore, Mr Qazi was SC Lahore and chief secretarywanted to appoint him as commissioner Lahore.
The third group belongs to PML-N loyalists. Among them is SecretarySpecialized Healthcare Nabeel Ahmed Awan who enjoys a good relationshipwith PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif. Another prominent member of this groupis acting Secretary Information Raja Jehangir Anwar who was regarded asloyal to Shehbaz Sharif and remained a part of DMG-N group in the past. Butnow he has switched sides and took allegiance to TK group. He has becomepart of the TK group and is running administrative affairs with the help ofTK group.
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Secretary Specialized Healthcare Nabeel Awan who was part of the PML-Nloyalist group also seems to have sworn allegiance to Punjab HealthMinister Yasmeen Rashid and is doing her biddings.
Likewise, senior member Board of Revenue Babar Hayat Tarar and AdditionalChief Secretary Home Momin Agha who had been loyal to Shehbaz Sharif andbeen part of his kitchen cabinet, seem to have been picking no sides andare regarded independent. Because of their neutral position, a powerfulgroup is all ready to oust them from Punjab.
Amir Karim, former PSO Shehbaz Sharif, was very close to Shehbaz and whenthe latter visited Burewala, he did not go anywhere, he went straight to MrKareem’s house. But now Mr Kareem has officially joined TK group and hasbecome part of Usman Buzdar’s kitchen cabinet.
Secretary Labor Ahmed Javed Qazi who used to work as secretary coordinationunder Shehbaz has now joined the Jawad Rafiq Malik group. And Jawad groupdespite all its hectic efforts could not appoint him as commissionerLahore.
TK group accidentally appointed Captain Usman as commissioner Lahorebecause the group failed to appoint Secretary Primary Healthcare Sara Aslamas commissioner Lahore. So the group picked Mr Usman and he accidentallybecame commissioner.
So this is the scenario of Punjab bureaucracylink which is divided intosmall groups.
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