KOHAT, Nov 13: The local and foreign non-governmental organizations working for the well-being of the Afghan refugees are constantly refusing to employ 40 per cent of staff from among the local people as per an agreement signed with the Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees (CAR) 15 years ago, it is learnt.

A senior official of the CAR informed Dawn that all the NGOs registered with the UNHCR and the NWFP government had agreed to employ 40 per cent locals but due to lack of check by the authorities concerned they had been violating the rule and giving jobs to aliens.

He said in some cases the NGOs, which receive millions of dollars in aid, had employed 100 per cent staff from among the refugees. In most of the cases the staff does not fulfil the educational requirement for the job but had been accommodated just to please the donors.

The official who himself is a doctor said: “Even Afghans who are without valid medical degrees have been appointed on the doctor’s post and they are playing with the lives of the people.”

A scrutiny conducted by CAR revealed that these people had been employed on the pretext that they had lost their degrees during the Russian war or while on their way to Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the CAR has decided to discourage the trend of distribution of aid among the refugees by the opportunistic people who had been receiving much of the aid by exploiting the media.