Daily Times

PESHAWAR: A division bench of Peshawar High Court on Friday ordered regularisation of dental surgeons working in different hospitals at the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The orders were issued by a bench comprising Justice Nisar Hussain and Justice Daud Khan on a writ petition filed by eight dental surgeons including Dr Mir Zaman and others filed through their counsel Ijaz Anwar. The bench was informed that petitioners were working in different hospitals in tribal areas and have been working there for many years on an adhoc basis.

He said since the government had passed an act to regularise employees under which the services of hundreds of MBBS doctors had been regularised while petitioners were not considered. He said that the petitioners were ignored by the concerned authorities with the excuse that the phrase ‘dental surgeon’ had not been mentioned in the act. But an amendment had been introduced in the act to include the phrase; therefore their services should also be regularised.

The bench after hearing the arguments accepted the plea and ordered the authorities to implement the order. The bench while hearing another petition filed by Class-VI employees of Town-II Peshawar issued stayed their termination and issued a notice to the town’s nazim. Khalid Rahman, counsel representing petitioners Alamzeb and others, argued before the bench that petitioners were appointed as class-VI but after local government elections the elected nazim had terminated them from their services.

Rahman stated that no notice was issued to the petitioners regarding termination from their services; instead, they were subjected to political victimization. He requested the bench to reinstate them, after which the court issued a notice to the nazim and sought a reply.