The deputy secretary of the Establishment Division was in for some embarrassment on Friday when he deliberately gave an inaccurate reply to a judge of the Supreme Court. The two-member bench, led by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, was hearing a legal complaint filed by some employees of the Establishment Division who are still waiting for their seniority letters to be delivered to them.
At which the deputy secretary, Abdul Haleem Rahi, produced what he said was a copy of such letters, and said they had already been dispatched to the complainants. Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the other member of the bench, pointed out to him that the alleged letter he produced didn't even have the address of the Establishment Division on it, which left it uncertain whether the Division's office was actually in existence. The deputy secretary made the promise sheepishly that the letters would be delivered to the complaints "at the earliest." At one point during the hearing, Justice Isa had wondered loudly whether the country really had a government ruling it.
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