Command Appointments
After serving as DG CD&MD Malik Saad remained AIG General later renamed AIG Operations directly under the Inspector General of Police (IGP) for four years after developing differences with the then Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani as DG CD&MD. Still junior Malik Saad was offered a number of key posts from other departments including a number of times by the Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah, whom he had served under as SSP Peshawar twice, to take charge as AIG Islamabad and the newly formed Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP).Malik Saad refused because of the immense political interventions that would and did take place. After finally resolving his differences with the Chief Minister, he was promoted to Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG).For two months Malik Saad served as DIG of the Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) when he was needed once again to take charge of the field; ranked as Ad.IG (Additional Inspector General of Police) this time as CCPO Peshawar. He was unanimously chosen by the entire provincial hierarchy ahead of officers up to ten years his senior.
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