SPSC rectifies result of Forest Officers'' exam

HYDERABAD: The authorities of Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) Hyderabad in a corrigendum here on Tuesday informed that the result of departmental examination for Forest Officer held in the month of July 2011 declared vide notification No.SPSC/Exam: (S.S)2011/376, dated 18-11-2011 has been modified.

After modification in the result, the authorities informed that Shahzad Sadiq Gill has been declared as passed in departmental examination for Forest Officer. (APP)

400 officers being illegally adjusted in FIA on deputation

KARACHI: More than 400 government officers having political influence are likely to be adjusted illegally in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) after sending them on deputation, which has spread uneasiness among the original officers of the country’s prime probe agency.

It has come to the knowledge of this correspondent that efforts have been initiated to adjust officers from institutions like Nadra, EOBI, Information Department, Export Processing Zone, PIA, Health Department and Cantonment Board in the FIA.

In this regard several FIA official moved courts during the last one year. One of these ‘lucky’ officers include the son of a personality belonging to a federal constitutional institution who was previously appointed in PIA and now he has been sent to FIA on deputation. Other officers who are being sent on deputation include the near and dear ones of politicians.

It has also been revealed that these officers have voluntarily agreed to accept Grade-17 (Assistant Director) position in the FIA despite the fact that they were serving on Grade-18 and Grade-19 in their original institutions.

A senior FIA official told this correspondent that the performance of the probe agency would be affected if this practice was not stopped. He said the uneasiness among the original FIA officers will also affect their performance.

During the last days of Musharraf’s era, over 50 officers from different government institutions were deputed to FIA but at that time all these officers belonged to police, Rangers, NAB, FC or other law enforcing agencies. But the PPP-led government has moved one step further and deputed over 350 officers disregarding the condition that they should belong to law enforcing agencies.

This correspondent also came to know that the federal government first contacted Chairman Federal Public Service Commission Justice (R) Rana Baghwandas to adjust its favourite officers in FIA but on plain refusal by Baghwandas the federal government first appointed these officers in other institutions and then introduced new rules to adjust them in FIA.

The FIA senior officials said the officers coming from other institutions were previously required to complete a six-month course in Islamabad, but now this course is reduced to a one-week which is unprecedented in the history of the country. They said a lot of sub-inspectors, ASIs, inspectors and assistant directors were deprived of promotions for the last 15-20 years and if the officers from other institutions joined FIA then their chances of promotions would be diminished forever.

Police: Student Killed By Officers Carried Pellet Gun

An eighth-grader shot and killed by police at his Texas middle school Wednesday was brandishing a pellet gun that looked like a firearm and had refused repeated orders to lower the weapon, police said.

Police received a report of a student at Cummings Middle School seen holding a gun, Orlando Rodriguez, Brownsville's interim police chief, said at a news conference. The carbon-dioxide powered pellet gun 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was holding looked like a handgun, he said.

Robert Valle, 13, was among the school's 750 students locked down in their classrooms during the confrontation. He said he heard police run down the hallway and yell "put the gun down," before several shots were fired.

"He had plenty of opportunities to lower the weapon ... and he didn't want to," Rodriguez said. Two officers fired three shots, striking Gonzalez at least twice, he said. Autopsy results are pending.

Before the confrontation with police, Gonzalez walked into a classroom and punched another boy in the nose, Rodriguez said. He said he doesn't know why Gonzalez was brandishing the weapon.

Before the report that the gun was a pellet gun, Gonzalez's godmother, Norma Leticia Navarro, told The Associated Press she couldn't imagine what led to the fatal confrontation.

"Jaime was not a bad kid, and I wish I could ask him why he did that, why did you put yourself in that position?" she said.

Still, she said she understood that police were doing their job, but she expressed frustration that a child was killed and wondered if something else could have been done.

"I'm not saying he was perfect or an angel, but he was a very giving person."

She said both of his parents work, and that his stepmother raised him from infancy and was very strict with him.

As word of the shooting spread quickly through the city on Texas' southern tip, where violence frequently spills over from Mexico's drug war, frantic parents rushed to reach their children.

The lockdown was lifted about two hours after the shooting, but students and employees were relocated while officers investigated, district spokeswoman Drue Brown said.

Brownsville is 280 miles south of San Antonio on the southern tip of Texas.

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