{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_y7dpvyw4wbks3upugdsa","title":"Lawyers criticise FCC judgement setting aside IHC verdict in workplace harassment case","title_en":null,"outlets":2,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/fcc-sets-aside-ihc-verdict-in-harassment-case-y7dpvyw4wb","count":2,"items":[{"id":"n_txrx7o6bff6j3ggzm27q","seq":983901,"kind":"article","title":"Lawyers criticise FCC judgement setting aside IHC verdict in workplace harassment case","url":"https://www.dawn.com/news/2033736/lawyers-criticise-fcc-judgement-setting-aside-ihc-verdict-in-workplace-harassment-case","summary":"Lawyers and journalists have raised concerns about a recent ruling by the Federal Constitu­tio­nal Court (FCC), in which it set aside an Islamabad High Court (IHC) judgement in a workplace harassment case filed by a National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) employee in 2012. Nadia Sarwar, who was employed at NBP since 2008, alleged that the petitioners, Aqeel Abbas and Usman Shahid, had harassed her by misusing their authority. She alleged that they had forced her to stay in the…","published":"2026-09-30T16:16:03Z","seen":"2026-09-30T19:41:51Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-dawn-com-8e587b","name":"dawn.com","domain":"dawn.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q1178770","name":"Dawn","type":"newspaper","country":"PK","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-dawn-com-8e587b","topics":["asia","pakistan"],"authors":["author"],"image":"https://i.dawn.com/thumbnail/2026/09/30150747d43afed.webp","story":"st_y7dpvyw4wbks3upugdsa","category":"crime-law","category_p":0.4300000071525574,"category2":"labour","sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.7099999785423279,"political":0.27000001072883606},{"id":"n_y7dpvyw4wbks3upugdsa","seq":570914,"kind":"article","title":"FCC sets aside IHC verdict in harassment case","url":"https://www.dawn.com/news/2033408/fcc-sets-aside-ihc-verdict-in-harassment-case","summary":"ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitu­tio­nal Court (FCC) on Monday set aside the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) judgement in a workplace harassment case involving a female employee of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP). The high court, through its Dec 31, 2024 judgement, had restored in toto the Sept 3, 2013 decision of the Federal Ombudsman under the Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010 (Act), awarding the petitioners the major penalty of compulsory…","published":"2026-09-29T01:57:46Z","seen":"2026-09-29T03:38:51Z","lang":"en","country":"PK","source":{"id":"kite-dawn-com-66ec2f","name":"dawn.com","domain":"dawn.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q1178770","name":"Dawn","type":"newspaper","country":"PK","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-dawn-com-66ec2f","topics":["pakistan"],"authors":["author"],"entities":[{"id":"Q128831","name":"Federal Communications Commission","type":"org"},{"id":"Q899285","name":"immunohistochemistry","type":"org"}],"image":"https://i.dawn.com/thumbnail/2026/09/29082245338e698.webp","story":"st_y7dpvyw4wbks3upugdsa","category":"sport","category_p":0.38999998569488525,"category2":"crime-law","sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.28999999165534973,"political":0.20999999344348907}]}