KOHAT, Nov 1: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Kohat, has been delaying the expulsion of employees appointed on political basis despite court orders.

The regular employees of BISE, Kohat, had moved the Peshawar High Court against the illegal appointments on the basis of party affiliations made by the secretary establishment in violation of the prescribed rules. Appointments were made without advertising the vacancies and conducting test/interviews during past several months.

The sources on condition of anonymity said the illegal appointments started when the superintendent establishment appointed his brother without placing advertisement in newspapers and conducting test and interviews.

Similarly, the former district secretary general of Awami National party, other local party leaders and president of ANP, Darra Adam Khel, had got their relatives appointed as junior clerks and class four employees.

Four persons were appointed as junior clerks on the recommendations of a close relative of MPA from PF-38, Kohat, and the cousin of a provincial minister from Mardan. A gardener was promoted as a machine operator against the rules.

The Kohat BISE administration also secretly transferred the regular employees to other districts, sources said.

The Peshawar High Court had ordered termination of such appointees, directing the authorities concerned to give promotions to the old employees. But the BISE is not implementing the court orders. SUSPECTS HELD:

The police arrested 16 suspects during a search operation in Babri Banda on Tuesday, where militants had attacked the bullet-proof vehicle of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Housing and Planning Amjid Afridi a day earlier.

The Bilitang police said the provincial minister was going to Islamabad in his bullet-proof land cruiser along with police escort when the vehicle came under attack near Bandra Banda. However, the minister, his cousin and driver remained unhurt.

Earlier, the militants had attacked a flour mills and filling station owned by the minister, injuring some relatives of the minister.

The District Police Officer, Mubarek Zeb Khan, said the militants, who had earlier attacked the flour mills and filling station of the minister, could be involved in the latest attack.