PHC asks govt to explain non-regularisation of doctors

PESHAWAR: A division bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday directed the provincial government to submit report on not regularising the services of over 200 doctors recruited on ad hoc basis in 2011.
A division bench of the PHC comprising Justice Qaisar Rashid and Justice Asadullah Khan Chamkani was told by the lawyer of the doctors, Aminur Rahman, that some of the 500 doctors recruited on ad hoc basis in 2011 have been regularised.
He argued that when the doctors approached the court earlier, the provincial government regularised the services of 237 doctors while over 200 are still waiting for regularisation.
The counsel argued that the court has already directed the government to regularise the services of these doctors. The court after hearing arguments in the case directed the government to submit its report.
Meanwhile, a bench of the PHC adjourned hearing into the writ petitions against the Reforms Act 2015 in the teaching hospitals of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa till Wednesday.
The lawyers for the doctors argued that there were 10 medical teaching institutions in the province but the act has been introduced in only four teaching hospitals, only to go after the doctors. The court adjourned hearing into the case till the next day. Another PHC bench stayed the disqualification of a female tehsil councillor from Swabi. It served notices on the Election Commission and Local Government Department.
The counsel for the tehsil councillor Noor Jahan, Barrister Waqar argued before the division bench of the PHC comprising Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Roohul Amin.
He said that his client was elected tehsil councillor on the ticket of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. He argued that during the election for the tehsil nazim, she voted in favour of the candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on which the party sent a reference to the Election Commission for her disqualification.
The counsel argued that she was not directed by the party regarding any candidate while the law under which she was disqualified was implemented after the local bodies elections.
The court after hearing the argument stayed her disqualification and directed the departments concerned to submit its reply.