The Supreme Court slammed the establishment secretary for a delay in the demotion of officials promoted to Grade-22 without merit.
The government had earlier issued a notification of demotion to 54 bureaucrats, after the Supreme Court declared their promotions null and void.
Background
Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani had promoted 54 bureaucrats to grade 22 on September 4th last year, but the move was opposed by a number of officers who were not selected for promotion. They approached the Supreme Court which cancelled the promotions on April 27, 2010.
According to an Online report the bureaucrats who were affected with the supreme court verdict include the PM's Principal Secretary Nargis Sethi, Former Chief Secretary Punjab Javed Mehmood, Secretary Election Commission Ishtiaq Ahmed, Secretary Narcotics Tariq Khosa, Secretary Petroleum Kamran Lashari, Home Secretary Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, Chairman CDA Imtiaz Inayat, Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw's Chief Secretary Javed Iqbal, Secretary Ombudsman Sami Saeed, Chairman FBR Sohail Ahmed and Inspector General of the Punjab Police, Tariq Saleem Dogar, Secretary Information Technology Najeeb Ullah, Inspector General Balochistan Javed Ali Shah, Secretary Special Education Imtiaz Hussain Qazi, IG Motorway Wasim Kosar, Chief Secretary Balochistan Ahmed Buksh Lehri, Secretary Federal Ombudsman Sami Saeed.
The other officers include Pakistan's High Commissioner in Australia Jalil Abbas Jillani, Pakistan's Ambassador in China Masood Khan, Nazar Hussain, Junaid Iqbal, Ghulam Ali Shah, Zamer Akram, Prime Minister's brother in law Moeen Al-Islam, Zahir Hussain, Rukhsana Saleem, Ahmed Mehmood, Batool Qureshi, Shabir Ahmed, Javed Noor, Khalid Khattak, Haroon Shaukat, Ameen-ul-Hussain, Ghulam Rasool, Gull Mohammad Rind, Tariq Iqbal Puri, Shahid Rasheed, Nasir Khosa, Inam Ullah Khan and Khalid Idrees.
On August 16, the government amended the rules of promotion, making it possible for bureaucrats who had served only two years in grade 21 to be promoted to the next grade.
In a five-page notification, a copy of which is with The Express Tribune, the new criteria for promotion is stated as:
“Twenty five years service in BSP-17 and has completed at least two years in a post in BPS-21 and no penalty under Government Servants Rules 1973.”
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