ISLAMABAD: Federal Service Tribunal adjourned hearing of cases involving complaints about ‘promotion’, ‘implementation’ and ‘current charge’ for the post-winter vacation proceedings.
A division bench of Federal Service Tribunal adjourned hearing of complaints with directives to resume them again after resumption office in first week of January, 2017.
Earlier, the only operational bench of FST comprising Members Syed Rafique Hussain Shah and Dr Nazir Saeed heard implementation case filed by Muhammad Slaeem, and another ‘current charge’ case filed by Iqbal Minhas.
The bench also heard some other promotion cases submitted by Sajjad Ahmed, Ghulam Akbar Chandio, Sohail Ahmed Qureshi, Sajjad Ahmed and others. They had filed cases challenging administrative measures taken by the board regarding promotion of appellants.
Through ‘promotion’ cases, the appellants had filed petitions carrying complaints about un-granted promotion by the board. They had prayed the tribunal to direct the board to award them their rightful promotion which they had not been granted despite serving for years at the board.
The appellants asked the tribunal to take notice of undue delay regarding their promotion by the board and issue necessary directives to the board in their cases.
The appellants had prayed the tribunal hold speedy hearing of their complaints and dispose them office at the earliest in order to bring justice to them. A day earlier the bench had adjourned hearing of cases filed by M Waheed, Anjum Rasheed, and others.
Same bench had adjourned hearing of couple of other cases yesterday. Syed Rafique Hussain Shah and Dr Nazir Saeed adjourned hearing of cases filed by Waseem Iqbal, Anjum Waheed, Said Hussain Abbasi and Abdul Sattar.
Waseem Iqbal, Anjum Waheed, and Said Hussain Abbasi had filed complaints on ‘implementation’ while Abdul Sattar had submitted a complaint about ‘withholding of three increments’.