ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Sui Southern Gas Company to explain within a week why it was not implementing the decision regarding the reinstatement of employees who were recruited during a Pakistan People’s Party government but removed by the Nawaz Sharif regime.

The court on May 2 had ordered reinstatement of 775 employees of the company and referred the cases of 211 others to the Federal Services Tribunal.

The SSGC has absorbed about 100 of the employees but has refused to reinstate the remaining on the plea that the company’s financial position does not allow the absorption of all the employees.

About 80 of the remaining employees approached the court through advocates Wasim Sajjad and Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, asking it to prosecute the SSGC management for failing to honour its decision.

The bench comprising Justice Qazi Mohammad Farooq and Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, after hearing the counsels briefly, asked the Sui South-ern Gas Company adminis-tration to submit a report, explaining its position, within one week.