MIRPUR (AJK):(Altaf Hamid Rao) Law enforcement agencies used force to disperse the trouble makers allegedly during a test / examination conducted by the National Testing Service (NTS) for the recruitment of teachers under the auspices of the AJK Education Department in Bhimbher city of Azad Jammu & Kashmir on Saturday, official sources said.
The demonstration was reportedly managed by certain candidates comprising the adhoc teachers of the State Education Department allegedly with the blessings of certain local leaders of the opposition PPP AJK to frustrate the official move of conducting the test examination under the NTS.
The newly elected PML (N) govt. of AJK has made compulsory the induction of teachers in the public sector schools through the test exams to be inducted by the National Testing Service for the selection of the teachers for primary and high schools running by the AJK Education Department throughout Azad Jammu Kashmir purely under the principal of merit.
The adhoc teachers inducted allegedly during the immediate past PPP AJK regime sans merit – but purely on the political affiliations under the nepotism and favoritism, demand the regularization of their services first before going through for the fresh inductions through the NTS for the future.
PPP AJK asserted that the NTS has been challenged in the court of law – which has issued the Stay Order against any further proceeding for inductions through the NTS in AJK.
PPP AJK President and former minister Ch. Latif Akber said in a watsapp message to this Correspondent on Saturday that despite the Stay Order issued by the Court of Law against any further proceeding under NTS, the State Education Department was determined to conduct the test examination in Bhimbher on Saturday.
“On this, certain candidates approached the local PPP leader Pervez Ashraf who talked first to the Education department and later the local police officers to get the practice stoppedâ€, Akber said in his message. The PPP AJK Supremo continued that instead of giving sympathetic heed, the police started resorting to batoncharge and teargas the demonstrating mob including the candidates and the local PPP activists. It resulted in injuring of Pervez Ashraf and Waheed Akram, another local PPP leader with minor and multiple wounds respetively, according to Ch. Latif Akber, who strongly condemned the alstleged police violence.
“We strongly condemn this action of police and the administration and demand of the AJK government to take serious action against those responsible of this barbaric actâ€, the PPP AJK President Latif Akber said warning that the AJK authorities will be responsible for any reaction by the masses and the PPP. Ends