July 20, 2008	Sunday	Rajab 16, 1429

NAWABSHAH, July 19: The professors of Nawabshah have protested against the health department for discrimination in recruitments.

Talking to reporters at local press club here on Saturday, Assistant Professor Dr Roshan Ali Solangi and Assistant Professor Dr Abdul Raza Qazi of Nawabshah Medical College Hospital said that the Sindh health department had recently advertised that posts of associate professors and professors of surgery were lying vacant in Chandka, Ghulam Mohammed Mahar, and Nawabshah Medical Colleges with criteria that candidate should possess domicile of urban district.

They termed it a discrimination and injustice to doctors and professors having domiciles of rural areas which was a major portion of Sindh.

They demanded of PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah to take notice of such discrimination and direct the health department to re-advertise the posts allowing urban as well as rural domicile holders to apply for the jobs.

30 BOOKED: Nawabshah police booked at least thirty people for attacking and injuring policemen here on Saturday.

An FIR was lodged at Gupchani police station under Sections 324, 337 F1-F2, 337, 224, 225, 353, 147, 148 and 149 PPC against 30 people.

It said that a police party had raided Ganhwar Khan Gupchani village for arresting four absconders, namely Shahid, Noor Nabi, Mehboob Ali and Abdullah, wanted in a murder case.

The villagers attacked them and pelted them with stones as a result of which three policemen, Mohammed Fareed, Mohammed Mithal Chandio and Ghulam Shabbir Almani received injuries. No arrest was made till the filing of this report.