Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 9,25,189,199(1)(a),199(5)

(a)    Constitution of Pakistan-------Arts. 189 & 199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Judgment of Supreme Court---Applicability---Contractual appointments---Individual claim--Determination---Petitioners rendered contingent / contractual services to respondent / Sui Southern Gas Company Limited, through third party companies or otherwise and had claimed regularization in respondent / company---After decision of Supreme Court in the matter, petitioners sought determination of their individual claims by High Court in exercise of constitutional jurisdiction---Validity--Petitioners had already been non-suited by High Court earlier on account of maintainability---Matter was remanded by Supreme Court and High Court was also invited to express its view on the issue of entitlement---Separate pleas of each of the three thousand three hundred and fifty nine claimants were not individually appraised and jurisdiction had been declined---Full Bench of High Court declined to render findings in respect of individual entitlement as the same was not merited and petitioners could approach appropriate forum in accordance with law---High Court was bound by an authority illumined by Supreme Court, in application of enunciation of principles of law enshrined in its judgment---Constitutional petition was dismissed in circumstances.case law referred.Yousaf Ali Sayeed, J.(b)    Constitution of Pakistan-------Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Contractual appointments--Regularization---Statutory provision, absence of---Effect---Petitioners rendered contingent / contractual services to respondent / Sui Southern Gas Company Limited, through third party companies or otherwise and had claimed regularization in respondent / company---Validity---Subject of regularization was not a part of terms and conditions of service---Question of maintainability of such claim did not turn on whether service rules of respondent / company were statutory or nonstatutory so much as whether any statute or other instrument having force of law conferred such right so as to admit to its enforcement through a petition under Art. 199 of…