No one applies for 37 Torghar police posts.

MANSEHRA -- The Torghar police have failed to fill 37 constable posts reserved for women, members of minorities and employees' sons as no one applied for them lately.

'We appointed 122 police officials to the district following the recent relaxation of the appointment criteria by the IGP on the chief minister's orders but 16 seats reserved for women and employees' sons each and five for members of religious minorities remained vacant as nobody applied for them,' district police officer of Torghar Hafiz Janis Khan told reporters on Wednesday.

Mr Hafiz Janis said 159 police constable seats, including 37 quota ones, had lied vacant since 2011 but 122 of them were filled 'purely on merit' lately.

Meanwhile, a group of applicants demanded their appointment to vacant posts.

Constable positions reserved for women, employees' sons, minorities

They told reporters in Oghi that the provincial police chief and local MPA Laiq Mohammad Khan should take notice of the injustice being meted out to them by the Torghar police department and ensure their appointment to the vacancies.

STAMP PAPER SHORTAGE: The litigants and students have complained about an acute shortage of the stamp papers of small dominations in Mansehra district.

They told Dawn that they mostly required Rs30 stamp paper but the vendors sold Rs400 stamp paper citing the unavailability of the sought-after one as the reason.

'The chief justice of the Peshawar High Court should take a suo motu notice of the artificial shortage of stamp papers in our area. The vendors are...