‘Illegal recruitment’, promotions in Chitral Levies protested

PESHAWAR: Affected employees of Border Force/ Chitral Levies set up a protest camp outside the Peshawar Press Club on Thursday to resent, what they called, illegal recruitment and promotions. Burhanud Din, Bilan Khan, Mohammad Ghaffar, employees of Border Force/ Chitral Levies, asked the government to cancel all illegal recruitment and promotions in force.
They said the Border Force, Chitral, was merged with Chitral Levies and all the rules and regulations of the force were equally implemented. “However, the incumbent deputy commissioner of Chitral district, Aminul Haq, recruited and promoted his ‘blue eyed’ while most of the old employees were sent on forced retirement,” said one of the protesters. They demanded the Ministry of States and Frontier Region (Safron) and Secretary Home Department, KP, to probe into the illegal appointments and promotions made by the deputy commissioner, or else they would observe a hunger strike for an indefinite period.