Controversial extension: IHC seeks attorney general’s view

Akhtar Buland Rana claims govt illegally gave extension to Farah Ayub Tarin.


Our Correspondent August 23, 2014

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has summoned the attorney general (AG) seeking his view on a petition filed by auditor general of Pakistan (AGP).

Justice Athar Minallah of the IHC on Friday issued notice to the AG seeking his advice on the maintainability of the petition.

AGP Akhtar Buland Rana on Thursday filed a petition with the court challenging a government order of August 13 giving extension to Controller General of Accounts (CGA) Farah Ayub Tarin.

Rana has adopted before the court that there is no provision in the law to grant extension to an officer after retirement. He asked the court to set aside the extension.

The AGP had also petitioned the court last month claiming that his constitutional mandate has been stolen away by transferring the department of CGA from his administrative control to the finance ministry.

He alleged that Tarin was due to retire on August 13 but the finance minister and secretary finance division wanted to see her as new AGP after removing the petitioner.

Rana feared that the respondents could either book him in a false or assassinate him because imprisonment or death of the petitioner was the only shortcut way to appoint new AGP.

An IHC single-judge bench on July 8 had restrained the government from intervening in the AGP’s authority.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2014.

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