The government has abolished the ease of providing employment to a family member of a government employee who died during the service, Express News reported.
The division of the establishment has published official instructions to all ministries and divisions to implement the decision of the Supreme Court on this subject.
According to the notification issued by the establishment’s division, this installation has been withdrawn in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court dated October 18, 2024. The decision will come into force from the date of the decision of the Supreme Court.
However, members of the family of deceased employees will always be eligible for other advantages within the framework of the Prime Minister’s assistance package.
The memorandum specifies that the decision will not apply to families of the staff responsible for the application of laws that lose their lives in terrorist attacks. In addition, the appointments made before the decision of the Supreme Court will not be affected by this decision.
Following this government decision, all the ministries and divisions were invited to strictly apply the new policy.
Last year, the Supreme Court decided to dismantle the government’s employment quota program for members of the civil servants’ family, declaring the discriminatory and unconstitutional.
As part of the program, a widow, a widower, a spouse or a child of a deceased or medically retired employee was appointed to a government position without the need for open competition or a merit -based selection.
In its decision, the court noted that the program was specifically discriminatory against low -grade employees and their families. “These jobs are not hereditary either,” said the order.
The 11 -page judgment, written by Judge Naeem Akhtar Afghan, stressed that the employment of the public sector could not be “supplemented by civil servants”, because it would undermine the principles of equity and equality . The Constitution demanded that equality of employment and economic possibilities be provided to all citizens.
The court also explained that any policy or law which contradicts constitutional principles was subject to a judicial examination. “Any law, political or rule was subject to a judicial examination if it was manifestly incompatible with constitutional commandments, of a retrogressive and discriminatory nature between citizens,” said the order.
The decision canceled the previous orders, declaring that the appointment of a widow, a widower, a spouse or a child of an official – who had died during the service or become permanently handicapped – under This quota program was “discriminatory and ultra vires in articles 3, 4, 5 (2), 18, 25 (1) and 27 of the Constitution.”
However, the court said that the decision did not affect the appointments already made under the hereditary quota for current employees.
The federal and provincial authorities were invited to withdraw these laws, aligning them on the constitutional framework.
