Overview
- A division bench comprising Justices Muhammad Asif and Inaam Ameen Minhas paused Justice Babar Sattar’s single-bench verdict that had removed the regulator’s head.
- The order temporarily reinstates Major General (retd) Hafeezur Rehman as PTA chairman pending the outcome of the appeals.
- Notices were issued to petitioner Usama Khilji, and the matter was adjourned after the bench accepted a plea to suspend the earlier judgment.
- Government and PTA lawyers argued the post was filled under cabinet-approved rule changes, with 64 applicants of whom 24 met criteria, and said mandatory notice to the AGP was not given.
- Justice Sattar’s 99-page ruling a day earlier had held the hiring process unlawful and proposed assigning an acting chair from senior PTA ranks.