Illegal appointment: Contempt notice issued to AJK assembly speaker

Notice issued to AJKLA Speaker Ghulam Sadiq Khan for violating court order in illegal appointment and promotion case.

MUZAFFARABAD:

Azad Jammu and Kashmir High Court (AJKHC) Tuesday issued a contempt of court notice to assembly speaker for violating court order in an illegal appointment and promotion case.

Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal issued contempt notice to AJK Legislative Assembly (AJKLA) Speaker Ghulam Sadiq Khan for promoting his son and appointing his nephew in the assembly secretariat in violation of the court order.

The judge asked the speaker, Chief Secretary Khyzer Hayat Gondal, Deputy Opposition Leader Tariq Farooq, the Finance and Assembly Secretariat secretaries and 10 other persons to appear before the court on April 17.

The court observed that Sadiq has not submitted the copies of the orders of the promotion and appointment.

The court issued the order on an application filed by Khwaja Atif Bashir against the speaker on November 19, 2013 challenging the illegal appointment and promotion.

The chief justice had issued an order to maintain status quo.

Despite the court order the speaker amended the rules while promoting his son Khurram Bin Sadiq from protocol officer to assistant secretary and appointed his nephew in his place without advertising the post in the newspapers.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 26^th, 2014.