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KARACHI, Aug 30: The Sindh High Court admitted on Thursday a petition seeking a joint seniority list of engineers serving in the provincial works and services department
Petitioner Mehmood Ali Lakho submitted through Advocate M. Nawaz Shaikh that he was serving in the education works department as senior superintending engineer in grade 19 when all works departments were merged into the services and works department in November 2002.
The new department should have drawn up a combined seniority list of the engineers who belonged to the merged departments. However, it decided to have separate seniority lists of the departments which had ceased to exist because of merger. The engineers belonging to the defunct communication and works department were being favoured at the cost of their colleagues who worked in the other merged departments. A selection board meeting was likely to be held to confirm the separate lists and the respondent department and board be restrained from disregarding the petitioner’s right to promotion.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sabihuddin Ahmed and Justice Faisal Arab admitting the petition issued notices to the respondents for Sept 27.
Petition against OGDC
A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of a petition against awarding a contract of the Qadirpur Gas Compression Project by the Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) to a Chinese company, adds APP.
The bench comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Ali Sain Dino Metlo, hearing a petition filed by Zafar Mehmood Malik, a shareholder in the OGDCL, adjourned the proceedings for Sept 13.
The petitioner has challenged that the OGDC in violation of the bidding process had decided to award the contract of the Qadirpur Gas Compression Project to a Chinese company, the China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation.
With pray to restrain the OGDC from finalising the contract, the petitioner submitted that if the contract in question was finally granted, it would cause a loss of about $150 million to the OGDC and the public exchequer.
It was also submitted that as per the tender procedure the matter be referred back to the tender committee concerned for re-bidding of the gas project under the supervision of the SHC as otherwise the petitioner would suffer an irreparable loss.
Advocate Sabir Hassan appeared for Zafar M. Malik, Abdul Hafeez Pirzada for the other petitioner, Muneer A. Malik for the Chinese Petroleum Company while Khaliquzzaman represented the OGDC.
The Qadirpur field is situated some eight kilometres from Ghotki in Sindh.
