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(MANEND NEWS): The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) confirmed Sultan’s resignation in a short statement. “The Chairman National Accountability Bureau, Mr. Aftab Sultan presented his resignation to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif citing personal reasons.”
The statement added that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif “appreciated the services” of Sultan and “lauded his honesty and uprightness”.
“Upon his insistence, the Prime Minister reluctantly accepted the resignation of Mr. Sultan.”
The former director general of the Intelligence Bureau had been appointed to as NAB chief by the federal cabinet in July last year.
Sultan, a retired Police Service of Pakistan officer who has a reputation of being honest, earlier served as IGP Punjab and the commandant of the National Police Academy.
PML-N supremo and former premier Nawaz Sharif appointed Sultan as the head of the Intelligence Bureau in 2013 because of being an upright official.
He retired as the IB chief on April 3, 2018, after serving since June 7, 2013.
Sultan was the one who, being a senior police officer deployed in Sargodha during the Musharraf regime, had refused to help him in the 2002 referendum. In return, Sultan was demoted to the rank of an officer on special duty.
In addition, Sultan was also chosen by former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani of the PPP, making him the only officer who served with two different governments. Apart from Sharif and Gilani, Sultan has also served under former premiers Raja Pervez Ashraf and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
Sultan is a law graduate from Punjab University, who later did LLM from the University of Cambridge and also MSc in jurisprudence/legal studies from the University of Edinburgh.