KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet, in its around five-hour-long session on Tuesday, condemned the letter written by the National Accountability Bureau to the Sindh government to seek domicile-wise details.
The cabinet said that the information sought by NAB was beyond its mandate. File photo courtesy of the CM House
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet in its around five-hour-long session on Tuesday condemned a letter written by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to the provincial government seeking domicile-wise details of its employees from grades 1 to 22 and termed the letter “politically motivated”, written at the behest of PM’s Special Assistant Shahzad Akbar.
The cabinet said that the information sought by NAB was beyond its mandate. It demanded that the NAB chairman conduct an inquiry into the matter.
The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at CM House, was attended by provincial ministers, advisers, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Planning and Development chairman M. Waseem and other provincial secretaries concerned.
‘MoU on Azadi Cards for elderly to be signed within a month’
Karachi
May 6, 2021
The Social Welfare Department will execute a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the registration and processing of the Azadi Cards with the National Database & Registration Authority (Nadra) after the approval of the Senior Citizens Council within a month, the chief secretary assured the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday.
Hearing a petition seeking the enforcement of a law under which the elderly will get a 25 per cent concession in medical treatment at private hospitals, an SHC division bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar asked the CS about compliance with the court’s directives with regard to the issuance of the health cards.