Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Oil and Regularity Authority (OGRA) Chairperson Uzma Adil has now formally appointed Imran Ghazanvi as Senior Executive Director (SED) E-6 in violation of all recruitment rules and regulations in OGRA. Imran Ghazanvi was a popular TV artist who appeared in various drama serials and later on became a popular advertiser by setting up a SIM advertisement company with the financial support of Lahore bases estate builder where he had developed warm and close relations with Uzma Adil since she was working in SNGPL at a senior post.

The basic responsibility of newly appointed senior executive director media Imran Ghazanvi was to tame the bitter local media which had been highlighting the corruption, incompetence and inefficiency embedded in OGRA whose management has also worked hand in glove with oil and gas mafias to plunder the national kitty. OGRA has a mandate to regulate oil and gas sector in the country and to watch and safeguard the interests of all stakeholders including the masses of Pakistan but this organisation has miserably failed to address its responsibility due to unabated corruption.

Before joining OGRA, Imran Ghazanvi was also part of PIA’s team when its affairs went from bad to worse due to mismanagement. As per record of his appointment, incumbent chairperson OGRA relaxed all rules in order to bring Mr Ghazanvi to OGRA as a special post senior executive director post was created that would be filled on direct posting.

More than a dozen people are working on a senior executive director post and all these persons were promoted to this post and none of them had been posting directly as OGRA laws did not allow such an appointment. According to OGRA services regulation 2011, the minimum experience required for SED (E-6) in the general service group is 18 years with a Masters degree but chairperson Uzma Adil advertised the post and reduce the required experience from 18 years to 15 years to favour her friend.

Daily Times repeatedly approached ORGA spokesman and chairperson for comments on the new recruitment but none of them bothered to reply. It is pertinent to mention here that NAB has been investigation a mega corruption scam including Tauqir Sadiq corruption scandal worth of billions of rupees that had already appeared in OGRA and its former chairmen Saeed Ahmed and Mr Sadiq are also facing reference in accountability courts.