ISLAMABAD: While the health ministry is in the limelight due to novel coronavirus scare, federal health secretary Dr Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah was removed from the post on Wednesday.
This was the second such removal in a week as on March 4, the then health secretary Dr Allah Bakhsh Malik (BS-22) was removed and Dr Shah (BS-21) was appointed as the in-charge additional secretary.
Apparently, the latest change has come after the criticism made by Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Dr Tahirul Qadri as Mr Shah was considered a close aide to former chief minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and had served as principal secretary to the former CM at the time of the Model Town operation in 2014.
Criticising the government on appointing Dr Shah, the PAT leader had said in a tweet: “The masterminds and perpetrators of #ModelTownMassacre were afraid of being caught during the past government but now they do not feel any fear during Imran Khan’s government.”
