SIALKOT: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to transfer officials of the Pakistan Customs who have been performing duties in the same region for the last three years.
Sources told Customs Today that FBR Chairman Nisar Mohammad Khan has taken strict notice of not transferring customs officials from one region to another.
The sources added that the chairman has issued instructions to Customs Member Nasir Masroor to prepare lists of collectors, additional collectors, deputy collectors, superintendents, deputy superintendents, inspectors, principal appraisers, appraisers, directors, deputy directors, assistant directors, who are working in same region from last three years.
They further informed that subordinates of customs member have also started scrutinising data to find the officials in order to make a transfer/posting on a large level. The customs member also directed the subordinates to produce service record of these officers along with the lists.
FBR Chairman Nisar Muhammad Khan has declared that he will never accept any political or any other pressure to stop transfer of any official, the sources revealed, adding that every official who has not been transferred during last three years will be assigned task in other regions. All officials will be dealt with according to rules and regulations, they said, adding that transfer/posting made the officials more capable as they got chances of working in different regions.
An official of Model Customs Collectorate, Sialkot Syed Mussadaq told Customs Today that the transfer of officials should be made after every three years because it was law of service. He said that the decision of the FBR chairman was much appreciable for this purpose.
