Reinstated teachers to file contempt petition

PESHAWAR: A number of teachers, who were reinstated recently, have decided to file a contempt of court application after the department refused to restore their services.

Nine teachers, Ali Akbar, Shah Hussain, Abdul Shafi, Jahan Ullah, Imtiaz Ali, Ijaz Ahmad, Mohammad Shakirullah, Mohammad Amjad and Ihsanullah were reinstated by the court in September 2017.

“We have been waiting for the last many months but the concerned authorities are not paying any heed to our issue. We are now going to file a contempt of court petition,” said one of the teachers.

He added that the court had directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, secretary and director Elementary and Secondary Education and district education officer on September 20 in its verdict to consider their case strictly in accordance with the mode and manner set out by the court in its judgment on May 24, 2016 and upheld by another court on May 24, 2017.

The teachers said that they were appointed between 1993 and 1996 against the vacant posts in Peshawar and Charsadda. With the change of the court, they added, their services were terminated on the pretext of alleged irregularities in their appointments. They continued that many government servants sacked during that time were later reinstated but they were not reappointed in the department.

These teachers moved the court, which issued a verdict directing the departments to deal their case as per the set mode and manner in another case last year.

Our correspondent in Mardan adds: Hundred of Subject Specialist Teachers (SSTs) of different schools of the district on Saturday staged protest to press the government for acceptance of their demand of promotion.

Carrying placards and banners, the teachers from different schools reached Government Higher School (GHS) No-3 and later gathered outside the Mardan Press Club after passing different roads in the city.

Addressing protesters, Dr Jamsheed Khan, Awal Khan, Abdur Raziq, Habibullah and others said that the SS teachers fully deserved promotion.

They said that the government should accept the longstanding demand of up-gradation of SS teachers without any further delay.