F.P. Report
LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday took suo motu notice of exorbitant salaries being doled out to employees of the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI).
He has summoned details of doctors and other staffers serving at the medical facility and its budgetary allocations.
The chief justice directed the Punjab chief secretary to also submit details about the service structure of the PKLI employees.
He remarked that it has come to his knowledge that doctors have been appointed at the kidney and liver transplant facility on the salaries as excessive as Rs1.5 million.
To a query, the chief secretary informed that Dr Saeed Akhtar is the head of the institute and has gone to Saudi Arabia for performing Ummarah.
Justice Nisar took notice of the matter during hearing of a number of cases at the apex court’s Lahore registry.
CJP censures DIG for seeking ‘undue favour’ through his son-in-law: CJP Mian Saqib Nisar came down hard on DIG Ghulam Mahmood Dogar for approaching his son-in-law to seek undue favour in a case.
The chief justice was hearing a matter pertaining to the custody of the police officer’s children at the apex court’s Lahore registry.
The CJP expressed extreme displeasure at the DIG for asking his son-in-law Khalid Rehman to approach him for undue favour in the matter. He summoned Rehm-an to explain his position.
“How dare you approach me for favour through my son-in-law?” the chief justice asked the DIG. “I am on the path of Jihad while you tried to approach me for favour,” he continued.
The police officer offered an unconditional apology, to which Justice Nisar asked him to disclose the name of the person who advised him to gain a favour in the case.
Later, the chief justice’s son-in-law appeared before the court.
Rehman told the court that the police chief, who is currently fighting a custody case for his children against his ex-wife, sought his favour pertaining to the case.
“DIG Dogar wants the name of his ex-wife and children to stay in Exit Control List (ECL),” Rehman told the court.
Subsequently, the DIG and son-in-law submitted an unconditional apology to the court. The CJP then ordered that further proceedings will be held in his chambers.
The CJP, however, made it clear to Rehman that he was his son at home but he was standing before the chief justice.
Moreover, the court also held the suo motu hearing on vacant post of Chief Inform-ation Commission Punjab. During the hearing, the apex court directed the Chief Secretary Punjab to make the appointment on merit.
Separately, the Supreme Court also heard the suo motu case on appointment of vice-chancellors in 37 universities. The court summoned a report from the chief secretary pertaining to selection criteria.
