PHC validates transfer of BISE Kohat chairman

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday declared lawful the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister’s orders on transfer of the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Kohat, and dismissed a writ petition challenging the action.

A two-member bench comprising Justice Irshad Qaiser and Justice Syed Afsar Shah dismissed the petition filed by the Kohat Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Chairman Professor Aqal Zaman against the orders of the chief minister.

The court had earlier issued a stay order in the writ petition by suspending the transfer order and sought replies from the provincial government. The Kohat BISE chairman had challenged the chief minister orders of his transfer in the high court.

During hearing, the petitioner’s lawyer submitted the chief minister issued the transfer order of the petitioner at a time when the matriculation examinations had started, which, he believed, could greatly affect the board’s administration and results. He submitted that the chief minister had neither issued a prior show cause notice to the petitioner for removing him from the office nor cited any reason about the transfer.