HYDERABAD, July 21: A group of unsuccessful candidates of the Sindh Public Service Commission combined competitive examinations have levelled charges of nepotism against the commission.

Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Wednesday, Habibur Rehman Jamali, Nabi Bux Sathio, Mohammad Azeem Khoso and Aziz Ahmad Chandio claimed that only close relatives of SPSC officials and children of influential people had been declared pass in the examination.

They also distributed photocopies of the commission letter which included names of the relatives of the commission officials and senior bureaucrats. They said the truth would come out if all candidates who had taken the examinations were interviewed by an independent forum.

They said the favouritism of the commission could be gauged from the fact that the candidates had not been provided with marks certificates of their written test even after the lapse of one month. They appealed to the president, prime minister, Sindh governor and the chief minister to cancel the results of the examinations.

DEMO: A group of people from Tando Jam held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Wednesday against the District Public Safety Commission and in support of the SHO, Tando Jam police station, in connection with a controversial narcotics case registered against one Anwar Shahzad.

However, a senior official of the District Public Safety Commission said a committee of the commission had made inquiries from elected representatives and respectable persons but no one had given statements that the man was selling narcotics or was involved in such a business.

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