Shangla applicants ignored in police recruitment, says MPA

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SHANGLA: Member provincial assembly from PK-24 Shangla II, Faisal Zeeb Khan claimed that Shangla residents have been ignored in the police recruitment, despite receiving applications from local candidates and also their physical tests taken but ignored in recruitment.
MPA Faisal Zeeb Khan, who belongs to Awami National Party and sitting in the opposition benches in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, told reporters here on Tuesday that he has submitted Pay attention notice in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly for alleged injustice with Shangla district in the recent police recruitment.
He said despite shortage of police force but the current government ignored the most backward district Shangla in the recruitment in which hundreds of police have been recruited.
“The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police department had received a huge amount from the poor applicants through Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency Eata in the name of recruitment but the department appointed police constables from all over the province except Shangla which created uncertainity among the young appicants,” The MPA claimed
He said the current Pakistan Tehrik-I-Insaf led government behave towards the Shangla people is not good and it continue injustice with the local people by ignoring them in such matters.
The MPA said he would agitate against the recruitment in the assembly as well as in all the platform to raise the voice of Shangla, adding that chief minister should launch an inquiry in the recent police recruitment and investigate the matter and ensure equal appointment by giving equal quota of the every district fallen in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
When minister for information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shaukat Yousafzai was contacted in this regard, he told The Northern Post that a delegation of the applicants for police posts belonged to Shangla met him in his office at Peshawar on Tuesday and he assured them that the issue would be put up with the concerned authorities.

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