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Summary The Supreme Court has ordered the government to take back the notification of the appointment of Wasim Ahmed as Federal Investigation Agency Director General, besides other contract officers.
Hearing the Haj corruption case, the SC has given a deadline of Thursday to the government to revert the notification, saying if the government does not take the notification back, the court will pass orders for its nullification. The government’s lawyer Abdul Hafeez Pirzada asked the court not to mix Haj-scam case with the case of contract officers. The chief justice said Haj-scam probe was not progressing due to contract officers, so that both cases could not be separated.The chief justice said that the government tended to be in conflict with the judiciary. Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramde said in his sarcastic remark that the government should bring a constitutional amendment that no powerful man can be brought to justice. He said that under the law no civil servant would be reappointed and the government had not made any progress on the matter of contract officers in a month. The lawyer of the government told the court that the government had forwarded the contract officers’ cases to the law ministry for review.The chief justice also expressed his displeasure over the vacation of federal investigation agency additional director Javed Bukhari, saying that weather he had taken leave or was sent off. He said that those who worked with the court were given a sent off.
