CJP rebukes govt for delay in filing appeals against LHC decisions.

LAHORE -- Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmad on Friday rebuked the Punjab government for delayed filing of appeals to challenge decisions of the high court.

'What can we do if the government does not wake up for its own right?' regretted the chief justice hearing an appeal by the Punjab Irrigation Department at Lahore registry.

Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul Ahsan joined the CJP on a three-member bench that found the department's appeal time-barred.

The CJP observed that apparently the department intentionally delayed the appeal against the decision of the Lahore High Court whereas the impugned decision was full of illegalities.

He ordered an additional advocate general to ensure the officials responsible for the delay in filing of the appeals were taken to task.

Separately, the bench dismissed an appeal by the provincial government against appointment of a woman secondary school teacher of Physics.

The additional advocate general argued that the Education Policy 2011 required that a SST must be a subject specialist but the respondent woman, Shumaila, had been appointed as physics teacher despite having not studied the subject in FSc and MSc.

However, the bench observed that the advertisement...