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Constitution of Pakistan (1973)--- ----Arts. 25 & 199-Constitutional petition-Educational institution--Admission--Offer of M.Phil/Ph.D., composite programme-Rules--Applicability---Petitioner had challenged, the eligibility criteria for admission in Ph.D. programme on the ground of discrimination-Contention raised by the petitioner was that he was enrolled into the composite programme of M.Phil/Ph.D. in the year 2003 and new Rules of M.Phil/Ph.D. programme announced in the year 2005 by the University were made applicable to him--Authorities contended that M.Phil and Ph.D. were two different programmes and University did not offer composite programme and that under notification in the year 2005, the new Rules were introduced superseding the old Rules of the year 2002---Validity--Record revealed that admission in M.Phil/Ph.D. programme was a composite programme and registration into the remaining part of Ph.D. programme was a procedural step and did not affect the continuation of the programme---Earlier the students admitted to Ph.D. programme in the year 2004 were subjected to the old Rules which amounted to discrimination to the petitioner with new Rules--High Court ,,, allowed the constitutional petition and directed authorities to apply old Rules applicable to the M.Phil/Ph.D. programme to the case of the petitioner--- Constitutional petition was disposed of accordingly. Muhammad Ishaque Soomro v. Water and Power Development Authority and another 1990 SCMR 924; Messers Airport Support Services v. The Airport Manager, Quaid-eAzam International Airport, Karachi and others 1998 SCMR 2268; S.H.M. Rizvi and 5 others v. Maqsood Ahmad and 6 others PLD 1981 SC 612; Muhammad Asif Ikram and others v. Central Manager, Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited (PTCL) and others 2009 PLC (C.S.) 721; Ahmad Latif Oureshi v. Controller of Examination, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Lahore and another PLD 1994 Lah. 3; re. Province of Sindh through Chief Secretary Sindh Karachi and 4 others v. Gul Muhammad Hajano 2003 SCMR 325; Shafique Ahmed and others v. Government of Punjab and others PLD 2004 SC 168; Rashid Nawaz and 7 others v. University of the…

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