Citation Name : 1996 PSC 181 SUPREME-COURT
SideAppellant: CHAIRMAN,PAKISTANINTERNATIONALAIRLINESCORPORATION,KARACHI
Side Opponent : SHERINDOKHTH
––Regln. 25—Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Arts. 25 & 185(3)-–Employees
of P:IA. corporation —Retirement at the age of 45 years on sole ground
of employee being a female—Validity of retirement challenged before High
Court—High Court found that change pertaining to terms and conditions
of service of employee to her disadvantage, could not be made in
arbitrary manner and that employee’s retirement was a dear case of
discrimination on basis of sex and sex alone and was, thus, violative of
Arts. 25 & 27 of the Constitution—Validity–Leave
to appeal was granted to consider whether employees of corporation were
governed by Statutory Rules of Service and if so, whether Regln. 25,
Pakistan International Airlines corporation Employees (Service and
Discipline) Regulations, 1985, was discriminatory and militated against
any of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
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