PESHAWAR, Sept 16: The Peshawar High Court has summoned pay slips of judicial employees of other provinces in two identical writ petitions seeking enhancement in allowances for over 3,000 subordinate judicial staffers across the province.

A two-member bench comprising Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Yahya Afridi directed the petitioners' counsel to submit a comparative statement about the salaries and allowances received by the subordinate judicial staff in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the rest of three provinces.

The petitioners have requested the court to order that they may be provided the allowances in line with that of the employees of the high court as well as those of other provinces.

These petitions are filed by Khan Akber Khan, representing the staff of Peshawar and rest of the province, and Abdul Manan Khan, representing the staff of Mardan.

The bench observed that the staffers in the provinces should receive uniform allowances and these discrepancies have to end.