Facts about rotten police set-up in Sindh

ISLAMABAD: As the law and order situation deteriorates in Sindh, particularly in Karachi, the province is being policed through political loyalists, including 44 Superintendents of Police (SPs) who could not pass the basic entry test or the Police Academy exam, but were appointed as DSPs in 1995, reveal documents with The News.
They had failed in the Academy exam with four of them caught cheating despite the fact they were allowed to attempt papers in Urdu, if they could not do it in English, exempted from the tests relating criminal justice, criminology and international crime. These officers have been kept in service notwithstanding the demand from the then IG Sindh of discharging them from service.
This ‘competent lot’ recruited as DSPs, commonly known as Directly Selected Policeman, are the loyalists of the PPP leaders who were inducted during the second term of Benazir Bhutto.
President Asif Ali Zardari’s ex-political secretary (Khalid Mustafa Korai), relative of Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza (Ali Bux Nizamani), brother-in-law of Makhdoom Amin Fahim (Javed Zamir Farooqi), nephew of Manzoor Wasan (Mohammad Ali Wassan), nephew of MNA Yousaf Talpur (Zulfiqar Talpur) and others are among these SPs. There were 45 DSPs directly inducted and only one, Qamar Raza Jiskani, was able to pass the Academy exam.
Nowhere in Pakistan but in Sindh, DSPs have been directly installed and during the successive PPP regimes starting from Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s heydays when 30 DSPs were inducted. The current DG FIA Waseem Ahmad is among those recruited during Bhutto’s time in 1975, a fact known to all and sundry.
As for as the above said 44 SPs are concerned, they were recruited as DSPs in 1995 and promoted to the next rank by the PPP government in February 2010, causing heartburn among those seniors to them and were due for promotion.
As they were examined at the time of recruitment, their result was not made public as majority of them failed. Their second test was

ordered by the then Chief Minister Abdullah Shah and the “objective type paper was set from CM Secretariat,” said a letter (11074-74EI/1997) of (former) IG Sindh Syed Mohib Asad sent to the (former) Home Secretary Abdul Wajid Rana.
“The question paper was brought by Rasool Bux Balouch, the then secretary to chief minister Sindh and Taj Haider, the Senator (PPP). The answer books were taken to the CM House and checked there, if ever, reportedly by the CM or the Secretary to the CM. List of successful candidates was also drawn in CM House and the answer books were never returned to the Central Police Officer. Thus in the garb of re-examination of the candidates, the names of ostensibly political favorites were conveyed as those qualifying the test,” said the letter.
It further states: “Because of their below-standard comprehension and poor power of assimilation, they are not expected to do any better in the field. Being political appointees, they are not used to face the vagaries of tough duties that the police service has in store for them. This system of direct recruitment has a great share in the present day crumbling police administrative, structure and is sure to cause further irreparable damage to the system if not taken care of at this stage.”
As these DSPs were sent to the National Police Academy, majority of them failed. The then Commandant of the Academy, Afzal Shigri, in a letter dated January 30, 1997 (NPA/8-12/95-III) mentioning the names of the failed officers recommended that a re-test for their entry into the police because the candidates had not met the standards of the police force despite inordinate relaxations. “The DSPs were given some relaxation: (1) They were allowed the choice to take their final exam in Urdu or English. (2) They were not examined in the subjects of ‘Criminal Justice’, ‘Criminology’ and International Crime’.”
Shigri’s letter written to the chief secretary Sindh further states: “During the course of training, one DSP expired in a car accident while on leave, two were withdrawn from training by the Sindh government, five were debarred from taking written exam and nineteen were debarred from various physical events as their attendance was less than 75%. Four DSPs were caught cheating and disallowed to appear in the rest of the papers.”
Out of 45 directly appointed DSPs, 38 were inducted in the first phase and seven in the second phase and under ‘Shaheen Quota’.
The names of the officers and their political connections have been given below: Khalid Mustafa Korai (former political secretary of President Asif Ali Zardari), Imdad Ali Shah (cousin of former CM Sindh Abdullah Shah), Ali Bux Nizamani (relative of home minister Sindh Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza), Shahjehan (relative of former Senator Taj Haider), Zulfiqar Talpur (son of PPP leader Ghani Talpur), Javed Farooqi (brother-in-law of Amin Fahim), Muhammad Ali Wassan (nephew of MNA Manzoor Wassan), Ghulam Sarwar Bhayo (relative of former MNA Mir Altaf Bhayo), Ali Sher Jekhrani (former secretary to Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Khoro), Akhtar Chandio (son of Ali Hassan Chandio, an old friend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto), Jan Muhammad Brahmani (former president of Sindh People’s Students Federation), Ashfaq Kalyar (son of former DIG Ghulam Shabbir), Dr. Najeeb Khan (son of a journalist who used to work for Reuters), Pir Ahmad Taqi Shah (grandson of former MNA Pir Abdul Qadir Shah), Fida Hussain Janwari (son of a PPP leader Khadim Janwri), Ashiq Ali Bozdar (son of former MPA Ghulam Mustafa Bozdar), Haseeb Afzal Baig (relative of former Senator Mansoor Ahsan), Khawaja Shah Ram (relative of former MNA Afaq Shahid), Latif Siddiqui (PRO to former CM’s Adviser, Muhamamd Yousaf), Zakir Piprani (Excise Inspector), Syed Ali Raza (son of former SSP Kazim Raza), Malik Altaf Sarwar Awan (son of a PPP leader Ghulam Sarwar Awan), Abid Hussain Qaimkhani (brother of a PPP female leader Parveen Bashir), Jam Zafrullah Dharejo (brother of PPP leader Jam Saifullah Dharejo), Naeem Ara Panhawar (a female PPP leader), Ajaz Musawi (nephew of PPP leader Shahfqat Shah), Saadat Ali Yasin (son of Col. Muhammad Yasin), Ajaz Sheikh (son of former director excise, Abdul Ghafoor), Ghulam Nabi Kerio, Aijaz Hashmi, Syed Salman Hussain, Abbas Rizvi, Shad Ibn Mashi, Irfan Mukhtar Butt, Ajaz Hussain Kamario and seven others.