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Constitution of Pakistan (1973)-- ---Art. 199--Employees' claim to a post of their own choice merely on basis of seniority--Appointment to a particular post was purely an administrative matter and employees, therefore, had no vested right to claim a post of their own choice--Order of employees' repatriation to their part department, as a result of economy measure by the Government concerning all employees working in the leave vacancies was equally applicable to petitioner employees--Petitions being devoid of merit were thus not maintainable. ORDER This order shall dispose of Writ Petitions Nos. 1541 and 1542 of 1989, involving identical questions of law and facts. 2. Briefly, the facts are that the petitioners are Veterinary Officers in the Directorate of Poultry Research Institute, Rawalpindi. They were transferred on 27-12-1987 to the Veterinary Institute, Lahore Cantonment, purely on temporary basis against leave vacancies upto 31-10-1988. As a result of the economy measure, salary budget was withdrawn by the Punjab Government and all the officers working in the leave vacancies were ordered to be repatriated to the parent department including the petitioners. The petitioners did not comply with the Punjab Government's orders by relinquishing the charge of the post held by them at the Veterinary Research Institute, Lahore, and instead invoked the Constitutional jurisdiction of this Court. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners' case has been misunderstood by the departmental authorities while giving report to this Court, inasmuch as, the petitioners are not interested to continue to work on temporary basis in the Veterinary Research Institute, Lahore Cantonment. Their grievance is that these vacancies of Research Veterinary Officers occurred at Research Institute, Lahore during the period from December; 1987 to July, 1988. Six Officers, namely, Dr. Khawar Mehboob, Dr Mateen Qadri, Dr. 4amar Rata Khan, Dr. Shuaib Anwar and Dr Anwarul Haq have been hosted as Veterinary Officers (Research) but the petitioners were ignored…

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