ISLAMABAD: For the first-time in the history of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), any Prime Minister has approved the transfer of members of the Board as earlier PM only approved the appointment of the chairman.
Earlier, the FBR chairman always selected his team members. Now, transfer and posting of key officials in FBR is considered to be more important as it has been made by PM, while the sources said that new FBR Chairman Nisar Muhammad was consulted before the transfers and postings.
The sources told Customs Today that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had decided to assign the task as chairman to Member Customs Nisar Muhammad Khan after consultation with former chairman Tariq Bajwa.
It is important to mention here that new chairman is an officer of BS-21 and his appointment at this designation was not possible due to the presence of BS-22 officers including outgoing Inland Revenue Policy (IR-Policy) Member Shahid Hussain Asad and IR-Operations Member Muhammad Ashraf Khan.
It may also be mentioned here that senior officials do not like to continue work under the leadership of their juniors; therefore, they prefer to be transferred or retired.
However, Chairman Nisar wanted that both officials should continue their work. Outgoing Member Administration Shahid Hussain Jatoi had merged himself with secretariat group so he has been transferred to Karachi as Member-in-Charge, federal ombudsman.
