IHC suspends NA panel's push to reinstate 358 EOBI employees.

ISLAMABAD -- The IslaAmabad High Court (IHC) has suspended the recommendations of the SpeAcial Committee of the National Assembly of reinstatement of 358 'political' appointmAents of EmpAloyees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI).

IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq ordered the suspension of the recommendatAiAoAAns, put forth by the NA paAAnel headed by Abdul Qadir Mandokhel, for the reinstatement of the EOBI's emAployees terminated on the orders of the Supreme Court.

The EOBI is the pension, old age benefits, and social insurance institution which is operated by the Ministry of Overseas PakistAanis and Human Resource Development.

In 2014, the apex court issued the direction of terminating the services of 358 employees appointed on the recommendations of the politicians belonging to the government.

The Special Committee of the NA recommended the reinstatement of the sacked employees.

Petitioner says matter already pending in high court

However, upon the refusal of Zulfikar Haider, the federal secretary of the overseas ministry and EOBI Board of Trustee chairman, the NA committee moved a privilege motion against Mr Haider as well as EOBI Chairperson Naheed Durrani. The panel also directed the FIA to initiate a probe into the assets owned by Mr Haider.

Mr Hadier had petitioned before the IHC against the direction of the NA committee. His counsel Syed Ashfaq Hussain Naqvi arAAgued before the court that by virtue of the 'impugned directions/

recommendations', penal...