ISLAMABAD: Akhlaq Ahmad Khattak, a Pakistan Customs Service officer of BS-20, has been transferred and posted as Collector, Model Customs Collectorate, Hyderabad.
The officer, presently posted as Chief (Customs Wing), Federal Board of Revenue (HQ), Islamabad, has been transferred and posted as Hyderabad Collector with immediate effect and until further orders.
According to the notification, if the officer is drawing performance allowance, he will continue to draw this allowance on the new place of posting. Khattak has been directed to relinquish/assume charge, using online HRMS facility made available to FBR or by using his IJP logins.
During an exclusive interview with Customs Today recently, Ikhlaq Ahmad Khattak said that Federal Board of Revenue has decided to move a summery through the Ministry of Finance that Pakistan Customs should be declared as a law enforcement agency with full authority like the other law and enforcement agencies. “Beside this, we are trying to improve the organizational structure of the Customs Department,” he added.
Khattak said, “We are expecting that the government will convert Pakistan Customs into a law and enforcement agency before the announcement of federal budget. “It is very important to improve the performance of customs,” he said.
He said that the required work in this regard has been completed and a summery would be sent in a couple of days. Pakistan Customs has yet to be declared a law enforcement agency while despite the fact we perform all functions of a law and enforcement agency. Under the C.R.PC, Pakistan Customs, police and other law and enforcement officers have the same authority.
