Official sources told Business Recorder on a condition of anonymity that Rehmat Dashti, a Deputy Director BS-18 was transferred on deputation from Balochistan to Immigration and Passport (I&P) Directorate a few months ago. The Ministry of Interior then appointed him in December 2014 as officer in-charge of MRP section at the consulate General of Pakistan Dubai on the request of a Federal Minister from Balochistan.
Dashti, sources added, has no experience of MRP as he did not issue even a single passport during his stay in I&P directorate. Dashti, a BS-18 officer was due to be promoted to grade 19 in a month or two, but instead was posted against a grade-17 post in violation of rules and regulations, sources said. Sources said that DG I&P had earlier sent a proposal for the posting of 34 officers in foreign missions to the Ministry of Interior and the list did not include the name of Dashti.
The Interior Ministry did not consider the proposal forwarded by DG I&P and argued that it would first discuss the matter with the establishment division, which is also against the rules, the official maintained. The source said that later DG I&P forwarded Dashti's name as officer in-charge in Dubai and the Ministry of Interior approved his posting immediately.
Despite court's orders, which declared the appointment illegal, the government has not yet recalled Nadir Gabol, the son of MQM MNA Nabeel Gabol, who is still working as officer in-charge of MRP section in New York. Muhammad Ashraf in Bradford and Arbab Muhammad Yawar Khayat in Kuala Lumpur are officials whose appointments were declared illegal by a court of law but they still work in foreign missions, the sources added.