Asad Mahmood and another V. Federation of Pakistan and others,
PLC (C.S) 2019 Note 48 · Balochistan High Court
This case involved two petitioners who had originally worked for the erstwhile T&T Department, which was later converted first into the Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation and then into Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). They went to the Balochistan High Court seeking relief on several issues: increased pay, pension benefits, promotion, transfer, and the legal status under which they could be subjected to disciplinary proceedings.
The court examined the relevant laws governing the transformation of the T&T Department into a corporation and then a company, which contained provisions protecting the terms and conditions of service for employees who were transferred. However, the court found that one petitioner was not actually an original T&T Department employee—he had joined after the Corporation was already established, and later accepted promotion under the company's own terms, meaning he could not claim the special protections meant for original transferred employees. For both petitioners, the court also found procedural problems: their pension claims were premature since they were still in service, their promotion claims failed because they had not included the relevant comparator employees as parties to the case, and for other grievances, they had not first approached the proper departmental authorities, who offered an effective alternate remedy.
As a result, the court dismissed the petitions. This case matters because it clarifies that protections for former government employees absorbed into a corporatized entity depend on actual employment history, and reinforces that courts expect people to exhaust other available remedies before seeking constitutional relief.
یہ مقدمہ دو درخواست گزاروں سے متعلق تھا جو ابتدا میں سابقہ ٹی اینڈ ٹی ڈیپارٹمنٹ میں ملازم تھے، جسے بعد ازاں پہلے پاکستان ٹیلی کمیونیکیشن کارپوریشن اور پھر پاکستان ٹیلی کمیونیکیشن کمپنی لمیٹڈ (پی ٹی سی ایل) میں تبدیل کر دیا گیا تھا۔ انہوں نے بلوچستان ہائی کورٹ سے کئی معاملات پر داد رسی کی درخواست کی، جن میں تنخواہ میں اضافہ، پنشن مراعات، ترقی، تبادلہ، اور وہ قانونی حیثیت شامل تھی جس کے تحت ان کے خلاف تادیبی کارروائی کی جا سکتی تھی۔
عدالت نے ان قوانین کا جائزہ لیا جو ٹی اینڈ ٹی ڈیپارٹمنٹ کو پہلے کارپوریشن اور پھر کمپنی میں تبدیل کرنے سے متعلق تھے، جن میں ان ملازمین کی ملازمت کی شرائط و ضوابط کے تحفظ کی دفعات موجود تھیں جو منتقل کیے گئے تھے۔ تاہم عدالت نے پایا کہ ایک درخواست گزار دراصل اصل ٹی اینڈ ٹی ڈیپارٹمنٹ کا ملازم نہیں تھا—وہ کارپوریش