GUL ZARIF KHAN vs GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar arts — 2025 PLC(CS) 533 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLC(CS) 533 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLC
Parties: GUL ZARIF KHAN vs GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar arts

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Judgment text as reported

GUL ZARIF KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar arts. 184(3) & 199---Judicial review---Government policy---Scope---Court under power of judicial review of governmental policy can neither act or represent itself as an appellate authority with the aim of scrutinizing rightness or aptness of a policy nor may it act as an advisor to the executives on matters of policy which they are entitled to formulate---However, judicial review can be sought when a decision-maker fails to observe statutory procedures; misdirects itself in law; exercises a power wrongly; improperly purports to exercise a power that it does not have; or the policy decision was so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it.

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