ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib on Monday said that the Sindh government had failed to take action against profiteers and hoarders in the province which eventually caused food insecurity across the country. In a statement, he said at the moment, a bag of 20kg flour was being sold at the […]
Syed Murad Ali Shah
Good teachers needed
Uniform syllabi, greater access to schools, ghost teachers and missing facilities at schools are some of the issues that exercise the minds of those in policy making positions in the government when they sit down to discuss the state of education and propose new initiatives. Rarely, if ever, does the quality of teaching in the […]
Murad orders decentralisation of primary schools’ management
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday directed the School Education Department to decentralise primary schools’ management by handing over administrative and financial powers to headmasters of Basic Pay Scale (BPS)-17. He issued these directives while presiding over a meeting to review development schemes of School Education Department and work out new uplift […]
Murad blames waning federal revenue transfer for ‘precarious’ financial position
“The financial position of the province is precarious because of decline in federal revenue transfer and this has badly affected development portfolio of the provincial government,” lamented Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday. He was presiding over two different meetings with the departments of Finance and Planning & Development (P&D) and a […]
Another underage Hindu girl abducted in Badin
Days after news of the abduction and alleged forced conversion of two underage girls in Ghotki district created an uproar, another 16-year-old Hindu girl has allegedly been abducted. According to an Information Department handout, the Sindh Minister for Minorities Affairs Hari Ram Kishori Lal has taken notice of a news item that went viral on […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives in Karachi on a day-long visit
KARACHI: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday has arrived in Karachi on a day-long official visit. Prime Minister Imran Khan will hold meetings with Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) legislators and business community delegations. During the meeting, PM will address macro-economic concerns and take businessmen into […]