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ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: At least 10,000 jobless youths have applied against 100 vacant posts of constables in the Capital police, a spokesman for the police said on Thursday.
The recruitment, which started on October 29, would be finished on September 3, he said. Out of the total candidates, 6244 belong to Punjab, 2829 hail from the NWFP, and the rest are from Sindh and Balochistan.
He said the candidates had been given six minutes time to cover one kilometre, which resulted in most of the failures. As many as four candidates have been disqualified from “race test”, for forcibly trying to enter the competition at a later stage, he added.
The SSP Islamabad has formed a team of independent observers to ensure transparency in the recruitment process. The observers have been selected from the interior ministry, army monitoring team, Islamabad Bar, chamber of commerce and Quaid-i-Azam university, the spokesman said.
FOUR KILLED: Four persons, including a policeman, have been killed in different incidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad during the last 24 hours, police said.
Shoaib, an Eagle Squad personnel, was killed and his colleague, Safeer Shah, sustained injuries after their motorbike slipped on Rawal Road.
The wounded had been shifted to the DHQ Hospital, where he was said to be out of danger, the police said.
In the second incident, a pedestrian was killed after being run over by a bus in front of Parliament House in Islamabad on Thursday, the police said.
Mohammad Azam was crossing a road when a bus belonging to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission crushed him to death. However, the driver managed to escape.
Similarly, Ghluam Rabbani, a resident of Abbotabad, was walking along a road in Blue Area Wednesday evening when a taxi (IDA-4976) crushed him to death, the police said.
LOOTING SPREE: Robbers looted Rs2.7 million and prize bonds in separate incidents in Rawalpindi.
In the first incident, an employ of saving center was robbed of prize bonds worth Rs1.8 million, police said.
Imtiaz Ali, the robbery victim, told the Civil Line police that he was going to Raja Bazaar to encash the prize bonds on his scooter, when at Server Road, five persons — four riding in a taxi and one on a motorcycle — intercepted him and snatched the prize bonds at gunpoint.
The police have registered a report and investigation is underway.
In a similar incident, two bicycle riders snatched prize bonds and cash worth Rs0.9 million from a woman who was leaving a bank branch near Rehmanabad on Thursday.
Gulraiz Iqbal, the robbery victim, told the New Town police that she was on her way home after collecting prize bonds and cash from the bank’s locker when two young boys snatched her bag and escaped.
VEHICLES STOLEN: Three motorcycles and a car were stolen from different areas of Rawalpindi on Thursday.
A Suzuki Khyber car (IDH-7178) was stolen from Saddar, while two motorcycles, (LOQ-1434) and (LOV-8791), had been lifted from Saddar. Another motorcycle (RIJ-5799) was also stolen from Kalar Saidan.
