A petition, challenging the post-wise educational criteria for new recruitment by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), was filed in Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday. The petitioner, Syed Tahir Abbas, through his lawyer challenged the advertisement in the national dailies for new recruitments and claimed that the NAB’s conditions for new recruitment were discriminatory to the law graduates. He contended that the merit given in the said advertisements was against the rules of Higher Education Commission (HEC). In his petition, the plaintiff claimed that the NAB recognised the BE/BSc (Civil Mechanical/Electrical/Petroleum) equivalent to Master degrees for application purposes from the intended applicants, but it also accepted the Master in Law (LLM), which is equivalent to MPhil, in negation of the HEC decision, only to deprive the applicants with LLB degrees of the opportunity.
The petitioner said that according to HEC the LLB degree is equal to Masters Degree. The petitioner cited the NAB chairman and ministry of law secretary as respondents. He pointed out that the same discrimination was also adopted by the authoritative body in recruitment of assistant director as the merit set for those holding degrees in law was first class or Grade B, whereas there was provision of second class or Grade C for other master degree holders, which was also exploitative. The petitioner submitted that according to the decision of the HEC, LLB was equal to masters degree whereas the LLM was equal to MPhil, but the respondent had ignored all the decisions and showed biased towards the persons, who get legal education by spending more years of schooling as compared to others getting their education in other fields. He added that it was a clear violation of articles 25 and 27 of the constitution. He requested the court to direct the NAB and law ministry to make immediate amendments in their recruitment rules.
NAB recruitment criterion challenged in IHC
