May 8, 2002	Wednesday	Safar 24, 1423

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QUETTA, May 7: The Service Tribunal, headed by Balochistan High Court judge Justice Amanullah Khan Yasinzai, ordered here on Monday the restoration of 127 sacked employees of the Agriculture Department.

The provincial government had sacked 127 employees who were working in various projects of the Agriculture Department on the ground that they could no longer carry on their services as the projects had been completed.

The sacked employees filed a case in the Service Tribunal against the government decision and maintained that 427 other employees were also there, working under the same projects of the department, but they were not discharged from service, rather they were sent to the surplus pool and only they (the 127 employees) were sacked from their duties. They termed the decision unjust and unfair.

The Tribunal, after hearing the arguments of the sacked employees, announced his judgment and ordered the restoration of all the 127 employees terming government’s decision illegal and unconstitutional.

In its decision, the Tribunal said that according to the Constitution, all the citizens were equal and nobody could be discriminated against.—APP