ISLAMABAD: The Federal Government, after due diligence and consultations with the provinces, decided to dismantle over 40 years old anomaly in law and ad hoc practices pursued regarding promotion of officers to senior policy and management positions in the provinces and the federation without obligatory reservation of posts.
The decision was necessitated pursuant to the Supreme Court’s observations and with further directions to process these under rule-based post-reservation system, obligated by Section 9(1) of the Civil Servants Act, 1973, and rules framed there under.
It needs noted that under cover of the 1973 inconclusive administrative reforms while all superior posts of deputy secretary and above in the Federal Secretariat, and all posts of joint secretary and above in the corporate sector and state enterprises under the Federal Government had been allocated to the CSP [renamed as DMG now PAS] and en-cadrement of the PCS officers against provincial and federal cadre posts had been discontinued by SRO 1237 of 21st August 1973, contrary to Section 9(1) of the Civil Servants Act 1973, in actual practice these posts were used for instituting patronage, via lateral entry, horizontal and vertical movements from all sources and services and private sector in ad hoc manner inconsistent with legal framework.
Hussain hit by transparency
ISLAMABAD: Finally the office of the president has tasted its own medicine. A citizen has filed an appeal to the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain against the Presidency for denying information sought under a presidential ordinance about the expenses on Hajj of President and his relatives.
Naeem Sadiq, a Karachi-based Right to Information (RTI) activist, had written to the Presidency on October 28 last year inquiring about the expenses incurred on Hajj, as the president’s family and staff also accompanied him for the purpose.
The president’s spokesperson didn’t respond to the calls despite repeated messages dropped by for his version.
Pakistan, India trade resumes
MUZAFFARABAD: Trade across the de facto border in disputed Kashmir resumed yesterday after being suspended for nearly a month, a Pakistani official said.
All movement including travel and trade across the Line of Control, which divides the Himalayan region between Pakistan and India, was suspended after Indian authorities detained a Pakistani truck driver for allegedly carrying 114 kilograms of heroin.
Yesterday, 27 trucks were allowed to leave for the Indian side and 49 others cleared to come the other way, said Basharat Iqbal, an official of the Trade and Travel Authority.
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