The petitioner's experience certificate was discarded on the ground that his employment was on daily wages/contract/project based and was not in accordance with the advertisement. Held that any exclusion, which deprives a citizen of consideration for public employment must have a clear foundation in law. Where the advertisement stipulates five years' experience?even from private entities registered with SECP or a relevant regulatory body?the later insistence that such experience must be on a regular, rather than contract or daily-wage basis, is wholly untenable when neither the law (statute, the rules, the recruitment policy), nor the advertisement prescribe such a bar. Introducing an impediment in respect of eligibility of a post not expressly provided amounts to reading into the criteria what the law or the advertisement does not contain, thereby infringing the constitutional right of the petitioner to seek employment. Permitting arbitrary exclusion at the discretion of the authority is not sanctioned by the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. Further held that the right of appeal is a substantive and valuable right of a litigant. Administrative action that defeat such a right?particularly by implementing adverse orders before expiry of the limitation period?cannot sustain. The respondents were obligated to act fairly, but instead acted precipitously in a manner incompatible with principles of natural justice and the administrative proprietyWrit Petition-9729-19MUHAMMAD AMIR SHABBIR VS GOVT. OF PUNJAB ETC Mr. Justice Anwaar Hussain26-11-2025 2025 LHC 7013