ISLAMABAD: Another close associate of President Pervez Musharraf, the chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), is likely to face the same fate as that of the Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Abdullah Yusuf and Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Major General (retd) Shehzada Alam Malik, The News has learnt.
A notification for removal of chairman CDA is expected in a few days, sources said on Saturday.
Kamran Lashari, considered to be the most powerful bureaucrat of Islamabad because of his closeness with President Pervez Musharraf, is heading the CDA for the last five years.
He joined the CDA on Nov 10, 2003 for three years but in 2006 got a two-year extension, which expires in November this year.
But, sources said, he is likely to be removed three months prior to completion of his extension period.
Lashari was serving the Punjab government before he was inducted in the CDA as its chairman.
Besides Abdullah Yusuf and Shehzada Alam Malik, Kamran Lashari’s removal would be the third decision by the government to remove Musharrafís blue-eyed boys.
Sources told The News that Kamran Lashari’s fate became uncertain since the new government took over the charge and differences between the PPP
government and Kamran Lashari touched their peak when the chairman CDA went on an
unannounced tour of Turkey
exactly when the budget session was on and lawyers were to
