ISLAMABAD  – In yet another development, Pakistan Agriculture Research Counsel (PARC) has reinstated its 269 sacked employees and in this regard joining letters have also been issued to the employees.
An official familiar with the development told this agency that earlier, the former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s order regarding restoration of 269 sacked employees was flatly refused by PARC as its Board of Governance (BoG) had re-sent the case, along with Federal Minister for Food Security and Research Mir Israr Ullah Zehri’s recommendation, to the Establishment Division for its review.
“Federal Minister, Mir Israr Ullah Zehri was not in favour of to reinstate 269 sacked employees of PARC that was why he stopped the restoration process of sacked employees and asked that Board of Governance should be allowed to decide the fate of employees,” said the official.
The official told that the Establishment Division rejected the recommendations of the BoG and directed to the research counsel for implementing the then the Prime Minister’s orders about the restoration.
When contacted, Chairman PARC, Naveed Salimi confirmed that the services of the 269 sacked contract and regular employees have been regularised and they have also joined their respective duties.
“The credit for reinstatements of sacked employees of PARC goes to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as I just acted as a symbolic signatory official,” the chairman added.
It is relevant to mention here that the then the Federal Secretary to Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Shafqat Hussain Naghmi told the recently held National Assembly Standing Committee of National Food Security and Research that PARC BoG had no right to roll back the Prime minister’s order regarding the restoration of the employees and Premier orders should be implemented in letter and spirit as the recommendations of Board of Governance have no significance against the prime minister’s order that was why he had written descending note.