Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 25,99

Constitution of Pakistan--- ----Arts. 25 & 199---Admission in university---Applicant was of domicile of other Province---Reasonable classification---Discrimination---Scope---Petitioners applied admission for MBBS and BDS at the university in the Province of Sindh while holding domiciles of other provinces---Plea raised by petitioners was that they could not be discriminated for seeking admissions on basis of their domicile---Validity---Decision taken by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council demonstrated reasonable classification based on an intelligible differentia which distinguished persons or things that were grouped together from those who had been left out---Differentia giving priority to or preference to local students of each province separately had rational nexus to objects sought to be achieved by such classification---What was unreasonable in one set of circumstances could well be reasonable in another different set of circumstances---Policy decision of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council was applicable across the board and was being adhered to by all provinces for granting admissions in their universities and colleges---High Court declined to interfere in decision of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council as there was no discrimination if policy decision was applied in all the provinces with same criteria---Constitutional petition was dismissed in circumstances. THIS ORDER PASSED BY: MUHAMMAD ALI MAZHAR, J.--- The aforesaid petitions have been brought to seek directions against the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (Admitting University) to include the names of the petitioners in the merit list for their admissions in the MBBS and BDS for the Academic Session 2018-2019. Admittedly, the petitioners in the aforesaid petitions have the domiciles of different places outside the Province of Sindh. 2. The brief facts of the case are that according to the public notice published in the newspapers by the Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi (Admitting University) for admissions in MBBS and BDS for Academic Session 2018-19 in pursuance of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) MBBS and BDS (Admission, House Job and Internship Regulation 2018), a…

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