SUKKUR: Sindh government reserves the right to file an appeal in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the federal government’s decision to reinstate the Inspector General of Police.
This was stated by Sindh’s Labour Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on Sunday.
He said party consultations were underway to decide how to approach the issue. He spoke with journalists while distributing cheques among labourers working for the Department of Labour and Manpower in Sindh. The ceremony took place at the Sukkur IBA University campus.
The minister also spoke of Sindh’s reservations regarding the recent census results and called the errors in the census results obvious. He said that the PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had ordered the Sindh government to provide the province’s labourers as well as their children with as many facilities as possible, therefore the government was offering them free education and health facilities as well as a pension through online banking, and that a billion rupees had already been allocated to the pension fund. He also said that a task force had been formed that included the Secretary of the Labour Department of the Sindh and the Secretary of the Sindh Welfare Board as members so that they could follow Bilawal’s orders effectively.
He also gave credit to Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Aslam Sheikh and Senator Islamuddin Sheikh for their efforts to establish a state of the art women’s university at Sukkur and boasted that once it was built and opened it would be the largest art and design college in Pakistan. He said that the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) as well as other health facilities were also being updated at Sukkur.
Later, Hussain Shah paid a visit to the Sindh Employee’s Social Security Institution (SESSI) and the Sindh Social Security Hospital and expressed his dissatisfaction with the hospital’s dilapidated condition. He warned the Medical Superintendent to rectify the conditions at the hospital otherwise he would be removed from his position. Later he reviewed the pace of work underway at an under construction labour colony and ordered the contractor and other concerned officials to do quality work that meets legal standards. Later he inaugurated the 8 bed Labour and Mines Welfare Hospital at Arore, he was accompanied by Secretary of Labour Abdul Rasheed Solangi and Secretary of the Worker Welfare Board Asif Memon.
Published in Daily Times, September 11th 2017.
