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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the government, under the doctrine of good governance, had an executive responsibility to adhere to rules and regulations as employees could not be made victims or scapegoats because of administrative delays.
“The employees cannot sit on [the] fence due to administrative or bureaucratic delays, inefficiencies, systemic delays, or in-house oversights or inadvertences of the departments as commanded by service laws jurisprudence,” observed Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar.
Justice Mazhar was heading a two-judge SC bench that took up service appeals filed by Sahibzada Hassan Ali and others against a Sept 12, 2025, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Service Tribunal decision denying seniority to regularised employees because of a belated official gazette notification. The SC, however, set aside the tribunal’s decision.
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