The newly appointed chief of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Wajid Durrani, will assume the charge as head of the agency on Monday (today). The newly appointed Director-General was working as Inspector General of Sindh, who has succeeded Javed Noor, who retired after reaching superannuation. The new IGP Sindh will be named on Monday.
Wajid Durrani is the 16th head of the agency since its formation in 1948. Additional Inspector General Saud Mirza has been given additional charge of IGP Sindh for the time being. It may be mentioned here that Wajid Ali Durrani was one of the main accused nominated by Ghinwa Bhutto in the murder of her spouse, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, near his Clifton residence in September 1996. Durrani is considered a close confidant of President Asif Ali Zardari. The Sindh High Court had accepted the petition filed against acquittal of Durrani and other police officials in Mir Murtaza Bhutto's murder case on April 21, 2011.
Formed in 1948, Intelligence Bureau (IB) is Pakistan's main domestic/internal intelligence and espionage agency. It functions under direct control of Chief Executive of Pakistan - the prime minister.
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