Admissions denied: PHC issues notices to health secretary, PMDC

PESHAWAR:

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) issued notices to the health secretary, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and joint admission committee for not admitting students from Balochistan and Fata at Khyber Medical College (KMC).

The court also issued an interim order allowing those students to attend classes.

A division bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel and Justice Irshad Qaiser heard a petition filed by Attaullah, Amir Shinwari, Shahrukh and others through their lawyer, Advocate Ijaz Anwar.

The bench was informed Attaullah got admission into KMC on seats allocated for Balochistan while Shahrukh and Shinwari on seats allocated for Fata. However, joint admission committee refused to admit them. According to Anwar, PMDC had, through a notification, restrained the committee from admitting students on allotted seats. He contended that it was the students’ legal and constitutional right to be granted admission on their allotted seats.

After hearing the arguments from both sides, the court issued a notice to K-P health secretary and others and sought a reply from them.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2015.