Liaquat Ali Chattha is a Pakistani civil servant in PMS-20 Grade who recently served as the Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division.
[4][2] He served as secretary for Labor & Human Resource department in the Government of Punjab from September 2021 to December 2021[5] and again from 19 May 2022 till August 2022.
[7] In September 2022, Chattha was posted as secretary for Housing, Urban Development, and Public Health in the Government of Punjab.
[9][10] During his career, Chattha provided facilities at gymkhanas and general bus stands in Gujrat, Dera Ghazi Khan, and Rawalpindi.
[2] He rose to prominence on 17 February 2024, more than a week after the 2024 Pakistani general election, when Chattha resigned from his post of Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division after admitting his role in electoral fraud in the division where 11 out of a total of 13 national assembly seats were won by Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) candidates.
[14][15][16][17] The Election Commission of Pakistan denied the allegations, saying that divisional commissioners had no direct role in the electoral process, and said it would launch an inquiry.
Punjab's caretaker Information Minister Amir Mir dismissed the allegations made by Chatha and said that he was suffering from mental illness.
[15][20][21] The PML-N raised concerns about Chattha's mental condition with Rana Sanaullah Khan calling him a "psycho".
[32] According to investigative journalist Umar Cheema, Chattha has close ties with the PTI and former ISI director general Faiz Hameed.
Cheema claimed special directives were issued to favor Chattha on multiple occasions during Faiz's tenure in the ISI.