Governor asked to lift ban on recruitment in Bajaur

KHAR: Tribal elders have asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra to lift the unannounced ban on the recruitment in public service delivery departments in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) to facilitate the tribespeople at their doorsteps.

In a statement on Wednesday, Maulana Anwarul Haq, Muhammad Naseer Khan, Abdur Rahim and others of Janat Shah Killay in Khar tehsil of Bajaur Agency said that trained teachers, doctors, paramedics and technicians of various fields were roaming jobless in Bajaur Agency despite the fact that many vacancies in different government departments were lying vacant since long.

“The educated, qualified and trained youth would soon become overage for government jobs if they were not recruited in the respective departments,” Maulana Anwarul Haq said.The tribal elder added that besides other departments, a number of posts were lying vacant in primary, middle and high schools and health care centres and hospitals in different parts of Bajaur Agency due to which the people were facing numerous problems to meet their needs at the local level. He said that federal government was meting out a step-motherly treatment to the Fata people as no appointment had been made in Bajaur Agency during the last three years of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif government.