Major General (retd) Hafeezur Rehman, the chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), was reinstated till further proceedings after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday delayed the single bench’s decision that had dismissed him from office.
Appeal hearing
A two-member panel made up of Justice Muhammad Asif and Justice Inam Amin Minhas heard the case.
Lawyers Qasim Wadood and Salman Mansoor appeared before the bench on behalf of the PTA chairman, and the additional attorney general was also in attendance.
Lawyers dispute the legal system.
Salman Mansoor contended during the hearings that notwithstanding the petitioner’s failure to request relief, it had been granted. He stressed that neither the regulations nor the attorney general’s right to notice—which he claimed was required by law—were contested in the petition.
