ISLAMABAD: After an alleged illegal appointment, the ministry of Capital Administration & Development Division (CADD) has also promoted the same official in the National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (NIRM) Islamabad against the law. According to the documents available with Daily Times, the CADD promoted Dr Shaista Habibullah from deputy director to director in the NIRM while neglecting the fundamental rules. According to the rules, the official should have over 12 years working experience for the promotion of the said post while, as per documents, Dr Shaista Habibullah does not fulfill this criteria. The documents revealed that the NIRM administration forwarded only Dr Habibullah’s name to CADD for the proposal of promotion. The sources disclosed that the NIRM administration intentionally exempted some other names due for promotion against the slot. Moreover, according to a letter, an aggrieved official of the hospital wrote a letter to the ministry stating that he had been deprived from promotion in sheer discrimination and the ministry officials also did not discuss his case in a meeting of a Departmental Selection Board (DSB) held in January this year despite the fact that the case was included in the agenda of the meeting. The official also alleged in the letter that the working paper prepared by NIRM for the promotion of deputy director to director contained false and fake figures and some vital facts were willfully and technically concealed from DSB just to benefit their favourites and to make obstacles for the promotion of the deserving. The official cited that the NIRM administration wrongly informed the DSB, that “the positions of the post of director as shown in the roaster that there are two posts of BPS 19 out of them one was filled transfer and absorption and then vacated after repatriation of Dr Fazal-e-Mola in July 2016 in pursuance of Supreme Court judgment”. While facts were stating otherwise, he disclosed. The official said that the period belonged to Federal Public Service Commission nominee Dr Syed Iqbal Raza, who is originally incumbent to the post. “This fact was concealed from DSB by NIRM administration,” the official stated in the complaint. He also informed the ministry with many other facts with documentary annexures. The sources said that Dr Habibullah joined NIRM on ad-hoc basis while her absorption in the institute was also against fundamental rules for the selection of the post. When contacted, executive director Dr Fazal-e-Mola said that he has assumed office in recent and his predecessor might had committed such violations. However, despite repeated efforts, CADD Additional Secretary Jamal Yousaf who was mainly dealing with the case could not be approached for comment over the issue. Published in Daily Times, March 19th 2018.