KARACHI: The appointment of Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah as Chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) was ruled unlawful by a two-member panel of the Sindh High Court, presided over by Justice Adnan Al Kareem Memon.
According to a notification released by the universities and boards department of the Sindh government, Zulfiqar, an officer of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Islamabad, was appointed as the chairman of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Mirpurkhas and given the additional charge of the BIEK chairman in July.
Zulfiqar Shah was handed leadership of BIEK by the Sindh government in July following a challenge against BIEK chairman Prof. Naseem Memon's reappointment before the Supreme Court.
Zulifiqar's appointment was subsequently contested on the grounds that it violated the policies and procedures.
The appointment of Zulfiqar as the chairman of BISE Mirpurkhas has also been contested by a petitioner in Mirpurkhas, as he was an officer of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Islamabad. According to reports, Zulfiqar was enlisted immediately as a result of suggestions from the Services General Administration and Coordination Department (SGA&CD).
The defendant was assigned to BIEK under the Services and General Administration Department's (SGA&CD) requisition, according to the written verdict of the SHC bench in Karachi, which was announced late on Thursday. The bench ruled that there was no mandate with the Sindh government and the authorities concerned. In a written ruling, the court declared that Zuliqar's appointment as the chairman of BISE Mirpurkha and BIEK was unlawful, and it revoked the SGA&CD's requisition orders. The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Islamabad, is Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah's original department, and the SHC has ordered that he be sent there.
