KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) has ordered a petitioner to file a constitutional petition filed against quota system again after making necessary corrections in it.
A division bench of SHC comprising Justice Mehmood A Khan and Justice Agha Faisal heard the constitutional petition filed by Altaf Shakoor and directed his lawyer Irfan Aziz Advocate to file it again after necessary corrections as they had made Sindh chief minister also a respondent.
Petitioner making the federal government respondent through Principal Secretary, Sindh government through chief secretary and Sindh chief minister though CM Secretariat, submitted the quota system in Pakistan has already died its constitutional death in 2013 and its rotten dead body, instead of a respectful burial, is still being dragged by the respondents. Resultantly, the sufferer is the general public of Pakistan, which is being denied of efficient governance, as recruitments are still made on outdated quota system, which has already lived its useful age, as prescribed by the Constitution of Pakistan, instead of pure ability and merit.
He submitted that the quota system in Pakistan was originally established to give every region of the country representation in institutions according to their population.
He said after the expiry in 2013, quota system is practically dead and buried, because the constitutional cover is no more available to this practice. In the absence of extension of the period, given in the Constitution, implementation of the quota regime has already become unlawful.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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