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KARACHI: The administration of the Sindh Assembly, which is considered as the August House of the province, has allegedly victimizing around 100 most senior officers by the authorities of the assembly, it has been learnt. The total strength of the Sindh Assembly Secretariat stands at around 700 officials that include some 200 gazetted officers, of […]

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has constituted a committee to reinvestigate the Karsaz incident that claimed more than 180 lives some nine years ago. The CM announced this on Tuesday while talking to media at ‘Memorial of Martyrs’ at Karsaz where he went to offer fateha and lay floral wreath on the […]

KARACHI: The Sindh Technical Education and Vocation Training Authority (Stevta) will give admissions to as many as 5000 students in diploma programs of various disciplines for the session 2016-17. “In a bid to ensure transparency in the admission process, the Stevta has tasked the National Testing Service (NTS) to conduct written test in this regard,” […]

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has taken a decision on Friday with regards to the closing timings of marriage halls, super markets, and shops. He took this decision while presiding over a meeting here at the CM, which was attended by Minister for Industries Manzoor Wassan, Advisor to CM on Labour Saeed […]

KARACHI: The Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) is allegedly wasting the funds of millions of rupees on closed schools falling under the jurisdiction of the foundation’s assisted schools in the province. The management of SEF instead of stopping the flow of funds to such private-run schools is just issuing warnings to their managers. Recently, the SEF […]

KARACHI: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started investigations into the properties of at least 15 top bureaucrats of Sindh including 13 officials of AG Sindh. Also, the Secretaries of Mines and Mineral and Fisheries and Livestock departments are under investigation. Well-placed sources told Daily Times that the NAB has requested to an intelligence agency of […]

KARACHI: The Sindh government has finally bifurcated the education department into two new departments namely college education department and school education department. The decision to bifurcate the education department was taken a few years back however the implementation on this could not be made for long. Chief secretary issued a notification No: SORI(S&GAD)2-4/2016 (Education) on […]

KARACHI: Higher Education Commission (HEC) has detected plagiarism in papers and thesis of vice-chancellor of the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST), Dr Suleman D Muhammad. Daily Times has learnt that the HEC initiated investigation in the matter due to differences of opinion of two university committees — one was constituted in […]

KARACHI: The overall functioning of the Sindh government has been declining as there are more than 90,591 posts in various departments lying vacant since long, resulting in large-scale unemployment, Daily Times has learnt. The former chief minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, had imposed a complete ban on fresh recruitments in 2014 and all the provincial […]

KARACHI: National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sindh, has finally arrested former secretary Local Government department Ali Ahmed Lund. Ali, who is known as blue-eyed boy of PPP leaders Agha Siraj Durrani and Owais Muzaffar Tapi, was already an absconder in two cases facing charges of making illegal assets worth of Rs 330 million. Deputy Director NAB […]