Supreme Court sets aside dismissal of ministry official

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the dismissal of a Ministry of Commerce officer who had been removed from service for unauthorised absence, and remanded his case to the Fed­e­ral Service Tribunal (FST) for a fr­­e­sh decision on his service appeal. The appeal is to be decided de novo, preferably within three months, after providing an opportunity of hearing to all parties from the date of receipt of the judgement, observed Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar in a ruling he authored....

By [email protected] (Nasir Iqbal)