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(a) Civil service-Seniority-Direct recruits versus promotees Determining factor-Date of confirmation or in other words sub stantive appointment-Integration Circular dated 25th November 1955, para.17(c). (b) Civil service - Seniority amongst promotees---To he re ckoned from date of confirmation-Officer confirmed prior entitled to rank senior to those confirmed subsequently Date of confirmation same in case of two or more officers and no order of merit assigned by Public Service Commission-Officer older in age, held, senior Integration Circular dated 25th November 1955, para. 17(b) &. (c). Case No. 636/331 of 19.70 fol. ORDER S. A. MAHMOOD (CHAIRMAN).-By this appeal under section 8 of the Punjab Civil Services (Appellate Tribunals) Ordinance, 1970, Dr. B. A. Qureshi, appellant, claims that he is entitled to seniority in Class I of Provincial Health Service from 11-4-1959, the date of continuous officiation, and further prays that the respondent No. 1 be directed to assign him suitable seniority at the appropriate place, in the seniority list, published on 1-7-65. In this appeal the respondents are the Government of the Punjab, Dr. Muhammad 1jaz-ul-Hassan, Dr. Mahmood Bakhsh Khawaja, Dr. Elahi Bakhsh Soomooro, Dr. Badar-ud-Din Chaudhry, Dr. Muhammad Aslam Chughtai, Dr. S. A. R. Hamdani, Dr. Mahmood-ul-Hassan Qureshi, Dr. Khalil-ur Rehman, Dr. Rashid Khan Mian, and Dr. Muhammad Siddique Faridi, respondents 1 to 11. Mr. A. G. Hamayun, Government Pleader, appeared on behalf of the Government of the Punjab. Mr. Maqsood Hassan Advocate appeared before us for respondent No. 2 Mr. Said Hassan Advocate appeared for respon dents 4 to 6, Dr. Mahmood Bakhsh Khawaja and Dr. Muhammad Siddique Faridi; were present in person. We have just decided the appeal of Dr. Capt. Din Muhammad Durrani (Case No. 636/331 of 1970), by which we have held him senior to Dr. Mahmood-ul-Hassan Qureshi, Dr. Muhammad Siddique Faridi and Dr. Muhammad Ahmadi, but otherwise the appeal has been dismissed as against the other respondents. While his date of confirmation was 6-4-1962, the date of confirmation of Dr. B. A. Qureshi appellant is 8-5-1962. Dr. B. A. Qureshi was also recruited to Bahawalpur…