ISLAMABAD: A single-member bench of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday sent the case challenging the quota system in Central Superior Services (CSS) exams, to the chief justice to form a larger bench to take up the petition.
Justice Aamer Farooq remarked that he was sending the case to the chief justice for forming larger bench as it was an important matter to be decided.
During the outset of the hearing, the petitioner’s lawyer Munawar Iqbal Dugal pleaded that the quota system had been stopped in 2013 in CSS exams but the practice was still continuing. He argued that the quota system could only be extended through an act of Parliament in accordance with the land.
He prayed the court to direct the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) to ban this practice as it was violating the merit system in Pakistan.
Justice Farooq asked the deputy attorney general (DAG) that why the quota system had been in practice in competitor exams to this DAG Raja Khalid Mehmood said that it was introduced just to bring the undeveloped regions at an equal level.
The bench asked how development could be brought after killing of a merit system, adding that this development couldn’t so far reach since 1973.
The court referred the matter to the chief justice and adjourned the hearing of the case.
