The OPS conundrum: Over 30 officers continue to work in defiance of SC order

The officers are confident they will be restored to their former positions soon.

KARACHI: The entire education department appears helpless as over 30 officers working in own-pay scale (OPS) against higher positions have refused to leave their posts despite receiving their suspension orders. 

The suspension letters were issued by acting education secretary Shafiq Mehar on the orders of the Supreme Court.

The defiant officers have questioned as to why Mumtaz Ujjan, another OPS officer working as regional director colleges, Karachi, has not been suspended.

They also pointed out the ‘step motherly treatment’ meted out to school cadre officers and said that Mehar has assured them that their problem will be solved soon and a notification will be issued to restore them on their former positions.



The suspended officers included Baldia Additional District Officer (ADO) Abdul Jabbar Rajpar, Bin Qasim ADO Amna Soomro, Orangi ADO Shaista Shaikh, Saddar ADO Gul Sanober Anar, Orangi ADO Sadruddin Ujjan, ADO Lyari Imtiaz Bughio, Shah Faisal ADO Siraj Tunio, SITE ADO Bashir Ahmed Boro, Saddar ADO Asadullah, Korangi ADO Humaira Noorulain, Liaqatabad ADO Musarrat Jabin, Gulshan-e-Iqbal ADO Zahid Bughio, Bin Qasim ADO Abdul Jabbar Kakhrani, Shah Faisal ADO Samina Naimat, North Naziamabad ADO Bushra Fatima, Landhi ADO Humaira Sultana, Malir ADO Waheedullah Qureshi, Korangi ADO Muhammad Qasim Mangrio, Jamshed Town ADO Abdul Latif Barfat, Gulberg ADO Naushaba Muslim, New Karachi ADO Naheed Sultana, Lyari ADO Ayesha Hingro, Gulshan-e-Iqbal ADO Haq Nawaz Solangi, Keamari ADO Mehrunnisa Junejo, Gadap ADO Muhammad Aslam, deputy DO sports Saeed Ahmed, deputy DO academics and training Javed Khawaja, Baldia ADO Farzana and deputy DO secondary Meer Afzal.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 6^th, 2013.