Pakistan Supreme Court Rules Government Liable for Administrative Delays Affecting Employees

Administrative delays aren’t employees’ fault, SC rules

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 Jus...

By [email protected] (Nasir Iqbal)