{"id":86264,"date":"2025-09-18T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=86264"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:39:02","slug":"ihc-suspends-single-bench-order-reinstates-pta-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ihc-suspends-single-bench-order-reinstates-pta-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"IHC suspends single-bench order, reinstates PTA chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) division bench on Thursday suspended the single-bench order of removal of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Maj Gen (retd) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ihc-orders-removal-of-pta-chairman-hafeez-ur-rehman\/\">Hafeez ur Rehman<\/a> from his post.<\/p>\n<p>A two-member division bench heard the intra-court appeals filed by the federal government, the PTA, and the removed chairman.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Advocate Qasim Wadood appeared on behalf of retired Major General Hafeez Ur Rehman. Additional Attorney General and other officials also appeared before the court.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Qasim Wadud appeared on behalf of Hafeez Ur Rehman before the court.<\/p>\n<p>During the proceedings, PTA\u2019s counsel Advocate Salman Mansoor raised serious procedural objections to the earlier ruling. &#8220;The single-bench decision granted relief that wasn\u2019t even sought in the petition,&#8221; Mansoor told the court.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing arguments, the court suspended Babar Sattar\u2019s ruling and reinstated Hafeez Ur Rehman as PTA chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the single division bench ordered the removal of the Chairman PTA,\u00a0Major General (r) Hafeez-ur-Rehman, from office.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered the immediate removal of the PTA chief, and a senior member of PTA should be appointed as the Chairman of PTA temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>IHC Justice Babar Sattar reserved the decision and issued a 99-page written decision today.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier judgment by Justice Sattar pointed out that the advertisement for the post, issued on March 28, 2023, had been published at a time when no such position legally existed. Later amendments to the PTA Appointment Rules in May 2023 were deemed insufficient to regularise the appointment process.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sattar observed that the recruitment process \u201csuffered fr\u00adom malice in law\u201d and appeared to have been tailored to accommodate a specific individual.<\/p>\n<p>The prescription of a higher age limit of 61 years for the post, compared with 57 years for other members, was cit\u00aded as further proof of malafide intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) division bench on Thursday suspended the single-bench order of removal of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Hafeez ur Rehman from his post. A two-member division bench heard the intra-court appeals filed by the federal government, the PTA, and the removed chairman. During the hearing, Advocate Qasim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":86068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1203,30856],"class_list":["post-86264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-islamabad-high-court","tag-pta-chairman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86265,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86264\/revisions\/86265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}