Screening test for PMS challenged at PHC

PESHAWAR: A candidate on Wednesday moved the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to seek re-holding of the screening test for the Provincial Management Service (PMS) alleging open use of unfair means in the examination.

Kaneez Sakina Ali challenged the screening test of PMS through her lawyers Mian Muhibullah Kakakhel and Saifullah Muhib.

In the petition, she claimed that “blue-eyed” candidates were allowed to use electronic devices and smartphones in the examination.

“The papers were sent outside the halls through Whatsapp and Viber availing 3g/4g Internet service to friends of the candidates and to experts to seek their help in answering the questions. The duly answered papers were then sent back to the candidates,” the petitioner claimed.

The petition stated that officials of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission gave lame excuse when a complaint was submitted by the petitioner and other candidates about the mismanagement on the part of the staff of halls concerned.“The paper was uploaded on the very same day of the examination. The paper was not allowed to be taken out from the hall. It had serial number on it and it was supposed to be handed over to the PSC staff with the answer sheet,” the petitioner stated.  

The petitioner requested the high court to declare the written examination of PMS as void as first there is no screening test in rules and secondly unfair means were used by the “blue-eyed” candidates.

Bomb defused in Hangu: The police and officials of the bomb disposal unit (BDU) defused a remote-controlled bomb planted by unidentified militants in Hangu bazaar on Wednesday, official sources said.

They said that after being informed by locals, the police and the BDU officials reached Taimur Market in Hangu bazaar and defused the 400 grams bomb.

It was learnt that the BDU officials had also defused 4kg bomb a day earlier on Samana road.