Supreme Court of Pakistan recently ordered Establishment Division to submit the list of retired civil servants who have been re-employed by the government after their superannuation. Despite the SC orders, various government departments are violating rules in terms of re-employing the officials after retirement. In few organisations, such officials had attained the age of superannuation but they have been hired.
But question arises, the apex court itself violating rules as Dr Faqir Hussain, the Registrar of the Supreme Court, who reached the age of superannuation in 2010 and has been granted his second extension by the Honourable Chief Justice early this year. At a point in time when the Supreme Court has listed those having been given “illegal extensions by various government departments; when the extension granted to the COAS in 2010, it has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court because he turned sixty (the age of superannuation) this year, what is so special about the Registrar of the Supreme Court that the final arbiter of justice should himself grant him an extension, even as he brings down the wrath of the court on all other transgressors. Is the ‘Registrar’ indispensable or has he been given exemption by the Chief Justice of Pakistan from his own judgment?
SAIF ALI JAN
Islamabad