ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday criticised the bureaucracy for protesting against the arrest of former Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General (DG) Ahad Cheema in relation to the Ashiana Housing Scheme corruption scandal. Taking to his Twitter account, Imran Khan “shamed” the bureaucracy and stated, “Utterly shameful how bureaucracy belonging to PAS has chosen to protest over accountability & arrest of Cheema, clearly SS’s [Shehbaz Sharif] front man. If they are innocent why should they fear accountability?”Utterly shameful how bureaucracy belonging to PAS has chosen to protest over accountability & arrest of Cheema, clearly SS’s front man. https://t.co/uY6F6em1M4 — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) February 23, 2018District Management Group (DMG) workers on Friday closed their offices on the directives of Additional Chief Secretary Umar Rasool on Friday in protest against the detention of Ahad Cheema. The meeting was attended by BISP Director General Mohiuddin Ahmad Wani, finance special secretary, additional chief secretary, former Lahore commissioner Rashid Langrial, Agriculture Secretary Mehmood Ahmad and other prominent bureaucrats.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2018 09:11 UTC