ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved the resignation of Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting Lt. General (retired) Asim Saleem Bajwa.
“I requested the honourable Prime Minister to relinquish me from the additional portfolio of SAPM on Info & broadcasting. He very kindly approved my request,” the prime minister’s aide said in a tweet.
Bajwa is also serving as the chairman of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority and is likely to retain the post.
On September 3, Asim Saleem Bajwa had announced his resignation as SAPM on Information and Broadcasting but the prime minister has refused to accept the resignation.
The prime minister rejected the resignation and asked him to continue discharging his duties. He had expressed satisfied with the clarification and evidence Bajwa presented regarding the charges levelled against him and his family.
Bajwa had strongly rejected the allegations levelled against him and his family in a news report claiming to have assets abroad. Bajwa had released a four-page clarification and strongly rebutted the baseless allegations, saying an attempt to damage their reputation was exposed and that he will always serve the country with pride and dignity.
Bajwa said the ‘incorrect and false’ news had been broken by a journalist on an unknown website on August 27 which claimed the declaration of his assets and liabilities as SAPM were wrong and that his wife did not disclose foreign investments.
