Pakistan, Aug. 17 -- Dealing with job loss can be a wrenching experience. Unfortunately, the contractual employees of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) have been going through the same crucial moments these days.

They have known for months, but they cling onto the hope that it won't happen to them in 'Naya Pakistan'. Sources said it has been decided in a meeting of the university syndicate's that contractual doctors and lecturers - mostly females - who have been working for more than six years will be replaced by trainees and favourites.

In a statement, the affected staff members said that these illegal appointment or promotions were being made under the supervision of the DUHS chairman, the Ishratul Ebad Khan Dental College prin...