ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has expressed serious concerns over the frequent changing of police chiefs in the Punjab and vowed to chalk out a joint strategy against the government in all-parties' conference (APC) scheduled for Sep 20.

Talking to the media, the PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal said in the last two years, the government has changed four chief secretaries, five deputy commissioners and five inspector generals in the Punjab with an alleged objective to use the police for political motives.

He was commenting on removal of Shoaib Dastagir as IGP Punjab, and appointment of Inam Ghani as the new police chief following an alleged dispute between Dastagir and Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umar Sheikh.

Ahsan further alleged that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government through its policies had posed serious national security challenges to the country.

"I salute those five inspector generals of police who refused to be used as tool of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief Minister Usman Buzdar for pursing their agenda of victimization," Ahsan added.

He further alleged that the government had drastically damaged the administrative affairs of the country's largest populated province.

The PML-N secretary information Marriyum Aurangzeb also took to Twitter and criticised the government for changing the IGP Punjab.

She alleged that Prime Minister Khan had buried the country's economy, governance and all the departments in the "coffin of his incompetence".

"The incompetent PTI has changed the fifth IGP Punjab in two years," she added.

She demanded the resignation of prime minister and Punjab chief minister allegedly for losing confidence of the nation.

Marriyum said the IG Punjab was saying that "there are issues of misconduct," which is a matter of great concern".

"The IG Punjab's statement simply means that corruption, incompetence and nepotism are rampant," she said.

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