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The president issued these directives while dismissing NHA’s protest of Wafaqi Mohtasib’s orders instructing NHA to provide employment.President Dr. Arif Alvi observed that even though the widow had applied after a passage of more than two years and eight months after her husband’s death, she had produced an Office Memorandum (OM) of the Establishment Division during the hearing which took care of this aspect.The president further noted that NHA appeared to have “overlooked this important fact” and termed the stance of NHA on her employment as “ill-founded” and directed it to process her appointment.The widow had applied for her appointment with supporting documents required by NHA, but she was denied employment. Feeling aggrieved, she approached the Wafaqi Mohtasib who passed the orders for her employment. NHA, however, instead of implementing the decision filed a representation with the president.”The president gave these orders while rejecting a representation of NHA against the orders of the Wafaqi Mohtasib directing NHA to grant employment to Mst. Ishrat Bibi (the complainant) whose husband was a driver in NHA and had died during service,” the statement readThe president upheld the order of Wafaqi Mohtasib and directed NHA to make compliance within 30 days.
ISLAMABAD: President Dr. Arif Alvi has ordered the National Highway Authority (NHA) to immediately appoint a deceased employee’s widow under the Prime Minister’s Assistance Package and to report compliance to the Wafaqi Mohtasib within 30 days.President Dr. Arif alvi voiced displeasure over the situation, stating that the widow had five young children to maintain and had been denied work on the “flimsy grounds” that she had applied for the job after the required period of one year had passed after her husband’s passing.
