Slow response: PHC gives FATA Secretariat a month to hire teachers

PESHAWAR:

The Peshawar High Court has given the FATA Secretariat a month to make appointments on various posts vacant in the FR Kohat education department.

The directive was issued by a bench of Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Roohul Amin Khan while hearing the petition filed by the counsel of Sahib Zaman and 26 others on Wednesday.

The petitioners nominated the Fata education secretary, education director, and FR Kohat political agent as respondents. Their counsel Ijaz Khan Sabi informed the court the tribal belt’s administrative body advertised a number of posts in the aforementioned department on February 4, 2012. The vacant positions included instructors of English, Nazra Quran, Arabic and art across primary schools of the frontier region. Sabi said despite the passage of three years, the appointments are yet to be made. He added that on March 5, the high court accepted some petitions filed in this regard and directed the secretariat to appoint the petitioners on the vacant posts. “Only those who filed petitions were appointed while the rest still await justice,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 14^th, 2015.