HYDERABAD: Teacher challenges sacking

Published January 19, 2003

HYDERABAD, Jan 18: The district and sessions judge here on Saturday issued notice to a woman teacher, Shahida Ashfaq Qureshi, on her application, challenging termination of her service.

Nasreen Shakeel Pathan, the coordinator, special task force, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Sindh, had sent a letter to the judge, Parkash Lal M. Ambwani, enclosing the application of Shahida.

The coordinator told the judge the applicant was sacked from the Piggott Memorial Girls Higher Secondary School without any reason.

She said the EDO, education, had got an inquiry conducted through the district education officer (girls) in this matter. She said the inquiry report said the teacher should be reinstated.

The teacher in her application said she was issued a notice of termination of her service without giving any reason.

She said she had filed an application before the EDO, education, apprising him of the case.

She said she was not reinstated by the school management despite the EDO’s orders. She said her funds and three-month salary were outstanding against the management.

TEACHERS: The Parents-Teachers Action Committee has appealed the Sindh chief minister to reinstate 52 women teacher of Hyderabad in the light of the recommendation by the district Nazim and the EDO, education.

In a statement, issued here on Friday, the chairman of the committee, Hafiz Matloob Ahmed Chishti, said that the secretary, education, Sindh, was unnecessarily insisting that the teachers should again appear for an interview before the Sindh Public Service Commission.

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