LAHORE: A Christian woman has asked the Lahore High Court to initiate contempt proceedings against the establishment division secretary for not fulfilling his undertaking about the allocation of a five percent job quota for minorities in the armed forces.

Petitioner Faiza Mushtaq Gill contends that the court in March disposed of a writ petition in light of an undertaking by the establishment division secretary that the Recruitment Policy of 2014 would be implemented with all prescribed quotas, including for minorities. However, the respondent failed to implement his undertaking, as reflected in a recent media advertisement for the recruitment of females as captains in the Pakistan army.

She pleads that the failure of the respondent to implement the settled laws and the policy of quotas for minorities in all recruitment amounts to a sheer violation of the order of the LHC and is sufficient for the initiation of proceedings for contempt of court. The petitioner asks the court to prosecute and convict the secretary of the establishment for contempt of court and also order him to implement the undertaking.

The hearing of the contempt petition has been fixed for Friday before Justice Shams Mahmood Mirza.

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2022