File photo of the Sindh High Court. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
The Sindh High Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on the legality of the proposed formation of the Sindh Higher Education Commission (SHEC).
The court was on Wednesday hearing a petition filed by the Pak-China Foundation. Sheikh Mohammad Waliullah Alam, had earlier argued that the HEC was created as an autonomous institution.
However, the petitioner maintained that the formation of a provincial higher education commission would “amount to devolution of higher education to provinces, which is not permitted by any law”.
However, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has already established a provincial education commission.
The lawyer told the bench that another petition on the legality of the SHEC was pending in the high court. The court decided to club the two petitions together, and issued a notice to the deputy attorney general and directed him to file the federal government’s views on the matter.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 25th, 2013.
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