QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti on Friday filed a petition in Balochistan High Court challenging the ban imposed by the Election of Commission of Pakistan on new recruitments.

Advocate Kamran Murtaza filed the petition on behalf of the home minister. He pleaded that the ECP’s ban on new recruitment in government departments was beyond its powers.

A division bench of the BHC headed by Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai heard the petition and issued notices to the ECP, the advocate general of Balochistan and deputy attorney general on the issue.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2018

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