KARACHI: A single bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) comprising Justice Muzamil Akhtar Shabir has issued notices to respondents of PIA Cadet Pilots’ recruitment case to file report and para-wise comments before December 1, 2022.

Writ petition No.70513 of 2022 was filed by Nabeel Javed Kahloon Advocate for petitioners Omer Waheed Qureshi and three other employees of Pakistan International Airlines Corporation to declare impugned act of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Human Resource Officer of PIAC for not issuing interview call letters to petitioners as illegal and unlawful and suspend operation of induction process of cadet pilots till final outcome of main writ petition. Secretary Aviation Division and Director General Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority are made respondents.   

Petitioners Adeel Akram, Adnan Khan, Shahista Manzil and Omer Waheed Qureshi were serving in PIA on regular basis. Chief Executive Officer PIA published an internal advertisement for induction of Cadet Pilots in Flight Operations Department on July 18, 2022.

Court order said that counsel for petitioners stated that respondents have done pick and choose in appointing pilots against fifteen seats wherein two candidates were declared as pass and remaining candidates were directed to reappear in test as question paper was out of course. Action of respondents was discriminatory and prayed that either petitioners may also be appointed or entire selection process be declared null and void. Order said rights of petitioners shall be subject to final determination by this court. 

According to Nabeel Javed Kahloon Chief Executive Officer and Chief Human Resource Officer of PIAC called for interview of their blue-eyed candidates for reasons best known to them, whereas they also called for interview of those two candidates, who even did not appear in second examination conducted by them, which is not warranted under law. They had refused to call petitioners for interview without any reason and legal justifications, whereas impugned act of respondents was in violation of basic fundamental right of petitioners, lawyer for petitioners concluded.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 16 2022

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