Back in business : Court orders restoration of sacked employees

ABBOTABAD: The Peshawar High Court's Abbottabad bench has ordered the restoration of all 150 employees who were sacked during the previous government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

PHC Abbottabad Bench Advocate Arshad Khan Tanoli told journalists in Abbottabad on Thursday over 1,000 men and women were hired in various departments of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government during the second government of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

“However, the subsequent PML-N government sacked those employees as their appointment was against the law,” he said. “These employees were again reinstated through an ordinance passed by the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government in 2008. However, the employees were never restored by the departments.”

According to Tanoli, over 150 employees from Haripur, Abbottabad, Kohistan, Battagram and Mansehra districts had been waiting on the court’s verdict regarding their status. “These employees filed nine petitions during 2013, 2014 and 2015 separately,” he said. “Tanoli was the attorney for eight of these petitions while Advocate Rasheedul Haq Qazi was the counsel for one petitioner.”

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2016.