ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Customs Officers Association (PCOA) has expressed concern over the arrest of the senior Customs officers by National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
According to sources, a meeting was held here in Islamabad in which PCOA President Director General-IPR Imtiaz Ahmed Khar, General Secretary PCOA Additional Collector Basit Abbasi, Director General Intelligence-Customs Lutfullah Virk and around 40 other senior Customs officers, including Sarwat Tahira Habib and Zeba Hai participated and protested over the arrest of senior Customs officers by (NAB).
Sources said that the meeting observed that civil officers are always ready to cooperate with other agencies, but the arrest of senior customs officers for the purpose of investigation regarding in years of old case is an act of harassment.
Sources further added that meeting emphasized that the officers were only suspects and there was no solid evidence proving their acts as wrong, such mal-treatment of officers would inflict an irreversible loss to their reputation and social life.