{"id":1156898,"date":"2026-02-04T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1156898"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:07:18","slug":"excise-minister-suspends-officials-over-bribery-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/excise-minister-suspends-officials-over-bribery-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Excise Minister suspends officials over bribery allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PESHAWAR, Feb 04 (APP): Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control, Syed Fakhar Jahan, has taken immediate notice of public complaints regarding alleged bribery by certain officials of the Excise Police Station Squad near Pir Zakori Bridge in Peshawar.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a Public Day event held in connection with the Excise Department on Wednesday, citizens reportedly pointed out the officials involved in receiving illegal money from the public. Acting swiftly on the minister\u2019s directives, the officials have been immediately suspended, while orders have also been issued for a transparent and comprehensive inquiry into the matter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The provincial minister stated that a zero-tolerance policy against corruption and illegal activities is being strictly enforced in the Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syed Fakhar Jahan urged the public to report departmental complaints without fear, assuring them that strict and timely action will be taken.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further directed all officers and officials to maintain respectful and dignified behavior with citizens and ensure full implementation of the policy of \u201cFirst Salam, Then Kalam.\u201d He reiterated that public facilitation will be ensured in a proper manner, no citizen will be harassed unnecessarily and any official found involved in illegal activities will face action according to rules and regulations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Feb 04 (APP): Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control, Syed Fakhar Jahan, has taken immediate notice of public complaints regarding alleged bribery by certain officials of the Excise Police Station Squad near Pir Zakori Bridge in Peshawar. During a Public Day event held in connection with the Excise Department on Wednesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[210,7274],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1156898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-peshawar-news","tag-syed-fakhar-jahan","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156898"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1156898"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1156898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}