Teacher’s salaries case: Advocate-general’s absence irks SHC bench

Petitioners claim they have not been paid salaries for the last 10 months.


Our Correspondent April 23, 2014
Despite the fact that they have been performing their duties with dedication, their salaries have been stopped without assigning any reason, they claimed in the petition. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday took serious exception to the provincial law officer’s continued absence and directed him to appear and argue on petitions on unpaid salaries of various teachers performing their duties at government schools in Karachi.

Headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, the bench summoned the advocate-general (AG) on May 14 to argue on different petitions filed by the teaching and non-teaching staff against unpaid salaries.

According to the petitioners, they were appointed by the education and literacy department on teaching posts at grades BPS-9 to BPS-15 and the non-teaching staff on grades BPS-1 to BPS-15. Despite the fact that they have been performing their duties with dedication, their salaries have been stopped without assigning any reason, they claimed in the petition.

Previously, the education authorities had revealed that the appointments of 234 teachers were fake. On Tuesday, a provincial law officer, Abdul Jalil Zubaidi, filed synopses that stated that the former education director had sent a list to the accountant-general to release the salaries of 2,228 teaching and 1,686 non-teaching staff members.

Zubaidi sought time on behalf of the AG, saying that he will address the court at the next date of hearing. In case the AG was occupied in some other case, Zubaidi said he will argue the matter then.

This irritated the judges, who noted that on the last date, time was granted on the grounds that the AG would himself appear and argue the matter. “We would also like to go through the documents attached with the synopses, which require assistance from the AG,” said Justice Mazhar.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 24th, 2014.

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