The office of the federal ombudsman has sacked Gilgit-Baltistan DIG Junaid Arshad after finding the official guilty of harassing his former wife on social media platform, Channel reported on Friday. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Junaid Arshad has also been slapped with a fine of Rs1 million. The Establishment Division has issued a notification in this regard. Arshad was accused of creating a fake Facebook account impersonating his ex-wife and uploading objectionable photographs of her to the social networking site. The victim had filed a complaint alleging that Arshad had “created a fake Facebook profile of the complainant and uploaded morphed sexually explicit images”. Subsequently, she had moved the office of federal ombudsman against her former husband. Earlier in September 2018, she had filed an application addressed to former chief justice Saqib Nisar requesting the arrest of her former husband.
Published in Daily Times, January 19th 2019.
