ISLAMABAD: Ex-Director General, Customs Automation and Reforms, Muhammad Saleem said he has always been on his track to defeat the compromises during his long era of civil service.
Muhammad Saleem, retired Director General Automation and Reforms, stated this while addressing a farewell ceremony held in his honour and attended by the customs officials at the Customs House Islamabad.
He said he did not get a single penny from any other source other than the monthly salary. “His family gives him lot of support to maintain his straight path of honesty and integrity”, he added.
The ex-DG told the colleagues that, during his service, he took stand on his principles and followed the ideas considered by him right ignoring the viewpoints of others where they are right or wrong. He proudly said that he made ultimate efforts to make the Customs Department better and more organized. He told the participants of the ceremony that he has set a future five-year roadmap for the department to make the automation system transparent. The ex-DG Automation stressed that the Customs Department must adopt extensive use of information and other latest technologies so as to make the system vibrant.
Ex-DG Saleem threw light on his past and said he started his career in 1977. He says he belongs to an area of Kashmir where he used to study in a village school while sitting on the stones. He said with pride that he served in the department by contributing his best of knowledge to it.
Zahid Khokhar, Member Customs, Member HRM Rozi Khan Barki, Chief Collector North Jawad Awais Agha, Member Legal Sarwat Tahira Habib, Member FBR Khawaja Tanveer, Asad Razvi, Chief Customs International, Saeed Khan Jadoon, Collector MCC Islamabad, Gul Rehman, Collector MCC Peshawar and many other dignitaries of the Customs Department participated in the farewell and praised him for his honorable contribution to the department and whished him a better retired life.
