WAHEED AHMED vs PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Health Government of Sindh art

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WAHEED AHMED VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Health Government of Sindh art.199---Employment---Regularization in service---Maintainability--In absence of any statute or Government policy requiring or enabling employer to regularize a contract employee, no writ can issue under art. 199(1)(a) of the Constitution of Pakistan. Citation Name: 2026 PLC(CS) 867 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case WAHEED AHMED VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Health Government of Sindh Reinstatement and regularization---Distinction---A prayer for regularization by an employee whose service stands terminated cannot be considered unless a case for reinstatement is first made out. Citation Name: 2026 PLC(CS) 867 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case WAHEED AHMED VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Health Government of Sindh art.199---Employment---Non-statutory terms of employment---Enforceability---Where terms and conditions of employment are not governed by statutory rules but by contract or by regulations, instructions or directions meant for internal use, violation thereof cannot ordinarily be enforced through a writ petition. Citation Name: 2026 PLC(CS) 867 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case WAHEED AHMED VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Health Government of Sindh art.199---Contractual employment---Expiry of term---Reinstatement and regularization---Maintainability of constitutional petition---Employees engaged on daily wages during COVID-19 pandemic at vaccination centers by Health Department---Services extended from time to time and discontinued upon expiry of contract---Whether employees appointed on purely temporary and contractual basis for a specific purpose, whose tenure had expired, could seek reinstatement through constitutional jurisdiction of High Court, and whether such employees had any enforceable right to regularization in absence of statutory backing or Government policy? Held: There was no statute or Government policy under which petitioners' service could be recognized---Prayer for regularization was not maintainable---High Court, while exercising constitutional jurisdiction, could not revive or renew expired contracts or alter terms and conditions of employment---Termination by efflux of time was neither breach of appointment orders nor violation of any statutory rule---Prayer for reinstatement, being in substance a request to revive expired contracts, was also not maintainable---Constitutional petitions were dismissed, in circumstances.

WAHEED AHMED vs PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Health Government of Sindh art — 2026 PLC(CS) 867 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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