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Sugar stock case: ‘Govt making false promises with courts’

KARACHI: The government is making false promises with the courts too, observed Justice Maqbool Baqar of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday while perusing a report by the official assignee of court, submitted on orders of a case regarding a disposed of suit against Najma Sugar Mills.

Earlier, the official assignee informed the court in his written report that so far only 500 tonnes out of 2,200 tonnes of refined white sugar was lifted by the Sindh government functionaries, which is in violation of the court order.

The court expressing extreme anguish observed that now courts are also taken for granted as “false promises are being made”. The bench asked the Sindh Additional Advocate General Mrs Haleema Khan to convey these observations to the relevant quarters. Later, the bench ordered the Sindh agriculture secretary to appear before the court on Nov 24. The court, on the previous hearing, had disposed of the suit with direction to the Sindh government to lift the sugar stock at a rate of Rs 36 per kilogramme and ensure its availability in the weekly bazaars of Karachi at a rate of Rs 40 per kilogramme, providing a maximum of two kilogrammes to each citizen.

JPMC issue: A division bench of the SHC comprising Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi directed the federal health ministry on Tuesday to resolve the outstanding issue of creation of the post of associate professor in BPS-19 at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre within three weeks.

The respondents in the case are the health secretary, JPMC director, establishment secretary and the FPSC. The petitioner, Dr Roohina Baloch, a BPS-18 assistant professor, maintained that in 1996 when the National Institute of Child Health was bifurcated as an independent entity, the post of associate professor was transferred to it and since then, the JPMC is working without this senior post, even though it has 20 operation theatres. She maintained that no heed was paid to her representations and demands, and in March 2008, the BPS-19 post was converted into a BPS-20 post. JPMC Director Seemin Jamali appeared before the bench on notice along with the standing counsel for the federal government and responded to different queries by the bench.

The bench later in its order said it is regrettable that the health ministry is unable to resolve the controversy regarding creation of the BPS-19 post that resulted in the JPMC to suffer as an institution. staff report

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