FAISALABAD, Jan 4: Two drug inspector are among the 27 government employees face termination from service for their long absence from duties.

Official sources told this correspondent on Saturday that DCO Tahir Hussain, on the reports of heads of government departments, had directed the deputy district officer (headquarters) to take legal action against all the employees found absent from duties unlawfully for months.

The source further said that the employees include: drug inspectors Ilyas Shakir and Muhammad Iqbal; entomologist Muhammad Asif; office clerks Mahmood Qureshi and Shabbir Ahmed, Sanaullah Khan, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Nasir, Khalid Masood, Kaneez Kubra, Nosheer Khan, Karamat Ali, Irfan Ali, Mahboob Hussain, Muhammad Tariq and Abdul Jabbar.

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