The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stopped the Pakistan Medical Commission from cancelling the recent admissions to five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stopped the Pakistan Medical Commission from cancelling the recent admissions to five private medical colleges in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and sought admission records.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Lal Jan Khattak also expressed displeasure with the long delay in the formulation of rules for the medical tribunal set up under the Medical Tribunal Act, 2020, and directed the law division to notify the same before May 27.
PHC stops medical colleges from suspending admissions
Peshawar
May 7, 2021
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday stopped private medical colleges from suspending the admissions of students and ordered a status quo in this respect.
A division bench of the PHC comprising Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid and Justice Lal Jan Khattak directed Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) to submit a record of admission’s procedure, interviews and merit lists of the medical students.
During the hearing, the chief justice expressed anger at the Law Division for not constituting a medical tribunal and directed the Law Ministry to notify the rules.
The petitioners Zarghoona, Niaz, Amna Bibi, Wajih-u-Rehman and others had challenged the PMC’s orders on suspensions of their admissions. The counsels for petitioners Barrister Rokhan Nafees, Salman Fiaz Mir, Haziq Ali Shah and Junaid Zaman advocates argued that the admissions of students could not be suspended or canceled due to a dispute