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Prosecutors to be hired through Punjab Public Service Commission.

Lahore: The Punjab government assured the Lahore High Court on Wednesday that recruitment in Prosecution Department would not be made on political grounds but the Punjab Public Service Commission.

This assurance was given by former Punjab Advocate General Khawaja Haris who is defending the Punjab government in this case as a private lawyer.

He made this statement to dispel the impression that new recruitments would again be made on political consideration.

The Punjab government had already told the LHC that 488 ad hoc prosecutors recruited by the previous government throughout Punjab were failed to pass departmental examination held for their conformation and consequently they were dismissed from service.

A full bench of the LHC comprising Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Hafiz Tariq Nasim is hearing hundreds of identical cases against dismissal of prosecutors. The LHC had suspended their termination order last year.

The court adjourned hearing for today on the petitions of Sarfraz Ahmed and hundreds of others deputy, assistant and deputy prosecutor generals who had sought court's indulgence to keep them continuing their jobs.

Petitioners said they were appointed between June 2006 and September 2007 under the Contract Appointment Policy 2004.

They said there was a criteria to remove them from service, but the government had sacked them after they had failed in interviews conducted by a selection committee months after their appointment.

The officers claimed that they had passed interviews before being appointed and requested the court to declare the sacking orders illegal.

Plea against Hafiz Saeed's detention: The Lahore High Court adjourned for Thursday (today) the hearing of a habeas corpus petition challenging the detention of Jamat-ud-Dawat ameer Hafiz Saeed and its three other leaders after the petitioner's counsel concluded his arguments.

Now a deputy attorney general, Pakistan, and the advocate general, Punjab, will make their submissions.

Earlier, the federal government in its reply said the leaders were detained following the sanctions imposed by the United Nation Security Council Sanction Committee.

Petitioners' counsel AK Dogar while concluding his arguments on Wednesday said the impugned order was unconstitutional, as the UN had no authority to interfere in the country's affair. He said the UN could not make such decision against the sovereignty of a state.

He said the federal government had only asked to freeze the accounts of the JD, not to take the leaders in custody. He said the provincial government while passing the detention order had not given any written reason and this fact alone rendered the impugned order illegal.

He said the LHC review board had extended the detention but it could be challenged through a writ petition because the board's decision administrative in nature, not judicial one and as such the single bench could take cognizance.

Dogar also said the detention orders of the petitioners dated Jan-9 and March-9, 2009, issued by Home Department, were without lawful authority and of no legal effect. He said the JD was an independent organization and it has no connection with Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.

The counsel said the government of Pakistan was indulged in the condemnation of religious parties and was trying to advance Olive Branch to India. He added the JD had been banned under the influence of Indian lobby's propaganda as Pakistan's permanent representative at the UN Security Council Abdullah Hussain Haroon had convince the Security Council to ban the JD, a charitable organization.

He requested the court to issue a direction in the nature of habeas corpus, asking the respondents to bring the petitioners before the court and declaring that they were being held in custody without lawful authority and in an unlawful manner.
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