ISLAMABAD - Chairman Board of Investment (BOI) Atif Bokhari has resigned from his post due to personal reasons. He has become the third BOI chairman who resigned during less than three years tenure of the PTI government.
Prime Minister Imran Khan had appointed Atif Bokhari as the BOI chairman in March last year and he joined the office in April. He remained the chairman of the BOI for about 14 months. Bokhari had replaced Zubair Gilani. In March 2020, Chairman Zubair Gilani had resigned from his post on personal reasons. Later, in 2019, Haroon Sharif resigned from his post citing personal reasons.
It is worth mentioning here that the incumbent government is continuously changing its economic teams. It has so far changed four finance ministers. Initially, the government had appointed Asad Umar as Finance Minister, who was replaced with Abdul Hafeez Shaikh. Later, the government had removed Hafeez Shaikh and given the charge of Finance Ministry to Hammad Azhar. However, Hammad remained as Finance Minister for few days as the government appointed Shaukat Tarin as Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue.
The PTI government has appointed fifth Chairman FBR since coming into power in the last two and half years. In April 2021, the federal government had appointed Asim Ahmad as new Chairman FBR. Javed Ghani was the only Chairman FBR during the last fours who has completed his tenure. All the three previously posted Chairpersons were removed from the post before completion of their tenure.
The PTI government in August 2018 had appointed Muhammad Jehanzeb Khan as Chairman FBR, who served at the position from 29th August 2018 to 10th May 2019.
Later, the government appointed tax expert Shabbar Zaidi as new head of the Tax Department. Zaidi remained chairman FBR from 10th May 2019 to April 8, 2020. As Shabbar Zaidi refused to continue due to medical reasons, the government appointed Nausheen Javaid Amjad as new chairperson FBR on April 8, 2020 and she also got removed on July 4, 2020. Later, Javed Ghani was posted who retired from the post of chairman FBR in April.
Similarly, the government had also replaced secretary ministry of finance several times.