New IGP Sanaullah Abbasi assumes charge of office

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Sanaullah Abbasi assumed the charge of the office on Monday after a police contingent presented him salute on his arrival at the Central Police Office (CPO).

The additional IGP Headquarters Ishtiaq Marwat and others received the IGP on his arrival. He was posted recently in place of Dr Mohammad Naeem Khan. Previously, Abbasi was serving as IGP in Gilgit-Baltistan.

The IGP later chaired a meeting with officers at the CPO where he was briefed about the law and order situation in the province. Abbasi was recruited in the police service as ASP I 1988. He remained the district police head in Malir, Noshero Feroz, Jacobabad, Shikarpur.