The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday ordered the removal of Major General Hafisul Lehman for the president of the Telecommunications Authority of Pakistan for appointing the post “illegal”.
The decision in the judgment of IHC Justice Babar Sattar is a case filed by digital rights activist Usama Khilji in 2023.
Lehman then filed an urgent court appeal to the verdict.
The order said the court had admitted to hearing the petition and directed the government not to engage in recruitment, and the government subsequently appealed to the court’s injunction lawsuit because the court had allowed the recruitment process to contact the recruitment process, which was accepted. Warnings say any appointment will be subject to the final decision of the case.
It added that the court was later informed at a later hearing that retired Major General Hafisul Lehman appointment As a member (government), then the PTA chairperson.
Judge Satar said in his judgment: “The whole process of membership position (administrative administration), the prescription and standards of the position, and the way in which the recruitment process is conducted, has lacked integrity and suffered legally the pain of the law. There are only three appointments (not requiring their requirements) rules (April 4), and the rules of the rule (4 (4) of the rule (4) of the rule (4) of the rule (4) of the rule (4) of the rule (4).
“The federal government decides that candidates listed at the bottom of the Selection Committee’s recommendations based on performance-based recommendations without any reasoning or objective basis and in accordance with the links of section 24A of the General Provisions Act, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 1897, 189
The judgment further reads: “Equally, the appointment of defendant No. 4 as the chairman of the PTA, after being appointed as a member (government), there is no objective or transparent process, nor any reason the federal government has chosen from the PTA in the eyes of the law.
He said the petition was based on the above reasons and pointed out that the subsequent steps of the federal government in the eyes of the law to fill membership positions (government) are unsustainable and have no legal effect.
“The entire development of processes and decisions built on an illegal foundation must crumble upon such illegal foundation. As the impugned advertisement and the process of recessing undertaken thereunder suffered from malice in law, all subsequent decisions of Such process, including the Appointment of response no.4 As Member (Administration) and Chairman Pta, are illegal, ultra vires the law and of no legal effect. “
The judge said in his judgment that the entire process since Lehman was appointed as a member (government) and that the PTA chairman was found to have “suffered from malicious intentions is the product of the illegal and illegal recruitment process that he would cease possessing such appointments and immediately charge against such offices.”
The judge ordered that the highest-serving PTA members will temporarily serve as the PTA chairperson’s office for the charges until the federal government appoints the regulated chair.
