KARACHI, Jan 6: A division bench of Sindh High Court, comprising Justice Shabbir Ahmed and Justice Gulzar Ahmed, on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by Nazir Ahmed Sheikh and others challenging promotions in communication and works department.

Petitioners were working in BPS-19 as SEs in the education works directorate under the control of education department which was later merged with the communications and works department after devolution.

They moved against the court alleging that the secretary of the department recommended the names of SEs exclusively from C&W department while ignoring the petitioners. The court was prayed to declare the act of respondents void and without lawful authority.

The court, in its order, observed that there was no illegality in selection of private respondents for promotion of posts of chief engineers (BPS-20) by the provincial selection board. "The petition is dismissed as it does not find any merit."-PPI