Sindh Labour Minister Amir Nawab has appointed Afghan nationals, possessing fake diplomas from unaccredited institutes of Afghanistan, as medical officers in his department, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Nawab is a member of the Awami National Party, a coalition partner in the Pakistan People’s Party-led Sindh government.
The matter unearthed when a rejected candidate for the medical officer post, belonging to Karachi, filed a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court and challenged the examination procedure.
The petitioner also revealed that Afghan nationals, possessing fake diplomas, have been appointed as medical officers.
According to documents, candidates Muhammad Hanif, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal and Shareef Abdullah were appointed as resident medical officers on Basic Pay Scale (BPS)/grade 17 in the Sindh Employees Social Security (SESSI) and then posted to various hospitals of the department in Karachi.
Among them, Muhammad Hanif was appointed through order No SS/MW/APPT/1448, issued by the administration medical director of the department, Mrs Samina Saeed.
The candidate possesses a diploma from an unknown medical institute of Afghanistan and the letter which he used for getting the gazetted job in the Sindh government was issued by the Afghanistan Ministry of Education.
The diploma possessed by candidate Shareef Abdullah is also from an unknown institute and written in Persian.
According to the sources within SESSI, these candidates also possess fake domiciles of Karachi that can easily be made using a scanner or could be obtained from corrupt Revenue Department officials for as little as Rs 3,000.
According to the service rules of the federal and provincial governments, no grade 17 appointment can be made on just a diploma even if it has been issued by an institute in Pakistan.
The sources further told Pakistan Today that in 2010, the labour minister directed the then secretary of SESSI, Naseer Jamali, to appoint these candidates and after the latter’s refusal to comply with the orders, he transferred Jamali from the department.
Then he directed the new secretary Mukhtar Soomro to carry out the same work, but he also refused.
The minister later pressured the then SESSI commissioner Nazar Muhammad Kalhoro, who did obey the illegal orders, but acted wisely by not signing them.
Kalhoro used the administration medical director Mrs Samina Saeed to issue the appointments orders on his behalf.
A high-level officer in the Sindh Health Department, requesting anonymity, confirmed that such grade 17 appointments cannot be made on a diploma and no one can be appointed as a doctor without authentication of the documents by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.
The sources said that at least 80 medical officers in SESSI are appointed due to their political affiliations without passing the examination of the Sindh Public Service Commission.
this is only mighty God who is running Pakistan. Otherwise these corrupt and traitors' Government is trying its best to elminate pakistan from the map of world.
Such type of appointment are taking place oftenly in the pakistani establishment. All the concern people including that minister should by punished as per enforced law in Pakistan.
At the end i pray before mighty Allah to get rid of these corrupt rulers and push them out of the boundries of Pakistan "AAmeen"
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