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Pirzada to represent government in SC
Saturday, November 28, 2009
By Dilshad Azeem
ISLAMABAD: The government, upholding the past traditions of not relying on state counsels, is hiring expensive lawyers to fight the petition filed by 51 superseded officers.
Instead of depending on the attorney-general or the acting attorney-general, the Centre has sought the services of one of the senior-most Supreme Court advocates, Abdul Hafiz Pirzada.
In the regular hearing, Pirzada, in his first appearance on Thursday, got a 10-day time from the Supreme Court’s three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to study the case.
On the other hand, another senior advocate Akram Sheikh has taken responsibility for protecting the human rights of superseded officials of Grade 21 without charging even a single penny while appearing as a pro bono publica council.
The Supreme Court bench, also comprising Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan and Justice Tariq Pervez, heard brief arguments from Pirzada and Sheikh and adjourned the case till December 4, 2009.
At least 200 officers are said to have been affected in the September 2009 promotions to top civil positions of BPS-22 in almost all cadres and initially eight of the bureaucrats moved suo motu pleas to the apex court on which Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took immediate action and fixed all these cases for hearing after clubbing them into one.
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