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 Employment Contractual employment---Extension in service, seeking of---Filing of a repeated representation after exhausting available remedies---Legality and permissibility---Maintainability of representation in circumstances---Briefly, the petitioners were appointed on contract basis in the Livestock and Dairy Development Department in 2010 pursuant to an advertisement---Their salaries were initially withheld but later released after verification of the recruitment process---Upon completion of the contract period, an inquiry into the appointments was conducted, which declared the recruitment unlawful, leading to non-extension of their contracts and discontinuation of services, though they were paid salaries for the period served---The petitioners thereafter filed multiple representations, writ petitions, appeals and related proceedings seeking regularization and reinstatement, all of which culminated in rejection of their claims and finally the impugned order was passed which was challenged through the present constitutional petition---Held: There was no vested right to seek extension in service---Further, when the contract appointments were not extended, there was no question for regularization of services of the petitioners---No remedy was available to the petitioners to file a fresh representation for reopening the matter which had attained finality after withdrawal of their appeal from the Supreme Court---Hence, the petitioners had no lawful right to reopen a closed and past transaction---Representation at first was not maintainable on which the impugned order was unlawfully passed---Constitutional petition being devoid of merit was dismissed, in circumstances.             Ministry of IPC through Secretary and others v. Arbab Altaf Hussain and others 2014 SCMR 1573 and Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs v. Muhammad Azam Chattha 2013 SCMR 120 rel.             Date of hearing: 25th June, 2025. JUDGMENT        ABID HUSSAIN CHATTHA, J.---This constitutional Petition has…