Allah Dino Khawaja ( A.D. Khawaja) () is a Pakistani police officer who serves in BPS-22 grade as the

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for Ministry of Human Rights. A.D Khawaja is batchmates with prominent bureaucrats namely

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(PAS), Rizwan Ahmed (PAS),

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(PAS) and

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(PSP). Khawaja had taken some serious decisions and implemented the National Action Plan of Pakistan and Karachi operation during his tenure as Inspector General of Sindh Police from March 2016 to June 2018. In February 2020, Khawaja earned the rare honour for a police officer to head a federal ministry when he was posted as Federal Secretary for Narcotics Control, an office he held for 7 months.

Early life and family

Khawaja belongs to a village in

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district. He was enrolled in Cadet College Petaro, from where he completed his Intermediate in 1982. After that, Khawaja completed his Master’s in Criminology from

University of Sindh The University of Sindh ( ur, ; sd, سنڌ يونيورسٽي; informally known as Sindh University) is a public research university in Pakistan located in the city of Jamshoro. It is one of the oldest universities in Pakistan and was certifi ...

Career

Khawaja has served as SSP in various districts of Sindh and worked in

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as DIG in districts South and East. He also rendered his services in Intelligence Bureau (IB) as a joint director. He was also posted as DIG for telecommunication and director for Sindh’s anti-corruption department. Khawaja also worked as personal staff officer for two chief ministers, Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah and

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. Khawaja was appointed to the position of IGP Sindh in March 2016 and served as the provincial top cop till June 2018. In September 2018, Prime Minister

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appointed Khawaja as the Inspector General of the

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where he served till February 2020. In February 2020, Khawaja earned the rare honour for a police officer to head a federal ministry when he was posted as Federal Secretary for Narcotics Control, an office he held for a period of 7 months. Khawaja has also served as the Commandant of the National Police Academy in

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. Khawaja currently serves as the Federal Secretary for the Ministry of Human Rights. Khawaja has made history, since he is the first Sindhi to ever become a

and first Pakistani Police Officer to head a Ministry twice.

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Early life and family

Career

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