Kamran Ali Shah
Peshawar:
Peshawar High Court (PHC) upheld the provincial government’s decision, dismissing the petitions of employees recruited during the caretaker period.
The Peshawar High Court, making significant progress on the issue of the dismissal of thousands of employees recruited during the caretaker government, upheld the provincial government’s decision. Seven petitions were filed against the provincial government in the High Court, which the court dismissed.
The provincial government allegedly recruited around 10,000 people in government departments during the caretaker period, against which preparations were started to remove them by passing the Removal of Illegals Act 2025 in the provincial assembly.
According to Additional Advocate General Taimur Hayat, seven petitioners had approached the Peshawar High Court against their dismissal and in their petitions, the legality of the act has been challenged. At the same time, they were considering more than 10,000 employees recruited in the caretaker government as legal, while according to the laws, the job of the caretaker government is to hold free and fair elections, not to recruit employees.
Praising the High Court’s decision regarding the removal of employees of the caretaker government from their jobs according to the law, Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shah Faisal Atmankhel said that in the preparation of this law, people recruited through the Public Service Commission and those who got jobs on the orders of the High Court were exempted. Under this law, only those employees who were recruited illegally during the caretaker government were recommended to be removed.
The Advocate General clarified that the purpose of passing the law through the assembly is to prevent illegal measures and the court, while giving a decision according to the law, declared the provincial government’s actions correct.
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