According to a notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat today, the government posted Rao Sardar as the inspector general of Pakistan Railways with immediate effect until further orders.
Separately, Faisal Shahkar, previously serving as the inspector general of Pakistan Railways, was appointed as the provincial police chief with immediate effect until further orders.
Faisal is a grade-22 officer and belongs to the sixteenth common. He joined the Pakistan Police Service as the additional superintendent in 1988 and worked as the additional inspector general at the Special Branch for almost three years, besides serving in the United Nations’ special missions in Bosnia and Liberia among other countries.
According to a report, Rao Sardar had earlier requested Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz Sharif to transfer him to the Establishment Division. He had maintained that it would be difficult for him to work as Punjab's inspector general of police if Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Parvez Elahi wins the election for the province's chief minister.