KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) gave one last chance to various education and literacy department officials to respond to the petition of a Sindhi language teacher seeking salary payment.
Petitioner Zulfiqar Ali approached the court citing the department secretary, Karachi education director and Sindh accountant general (AG) as respondents.
He submitted that he was appointed at Government Boys Secondary School Bhittai Colony Korangi Crossing, Karachi, in May 1999, but had not been paid since then.
He said that the AG had declared the appointments of Sindhi language and junior school teachers made during 1998 and 1999 as invalid in 1999, but they were validated by Sindh Service Tribunal in July 2007.
The department subsequently regularised their services and ordered the release of their salaries. However, Ali had still not received his salary from the AG and therefore had approached the court. The division bench expressed displeasure with the respondents’ failure to file their replies and gave them a chance to respond.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 8th, 2014.
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