The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a bill enhancing privileges and allowances of the provincial parliamentary secretaries. APP/File
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a bill enhancing privileges and allowances of the provincial parliamentary secretaries, including ‘special allowance’ of Rs 50,000, use of a car, house rent and sumptuary allowance.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla, who presented The Sindh Parliamentary Secretaries (Salaries, Allowances and Privileges) (Amendment) Bill, 2021, said that the privileges and perks of the parliamentary secretaries were increased as their remuneration were nominal as compared to their counterparts of other provinces.
He informed the house that a common lawmaker of Sindh Assembly got a sum of around Rs155,000 monthly but a parliamentary secretary receives an additional ‘nominal’ amount of approximately Rs25,000.
SHC seeks progress report on action taken against mafia forcing children into beggary
Karachi
December 26, 2020
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the police to submit a progress report on cases involving child beggary that had been charge-sheeted after they were registered at the police stations of Karachi and other districts of province, and explain what action they had taken against the mafia involved in the beggary of children.
The direction came on a petition seeking implementation of the Sindh Child Protection Authority law in the province to protect the rights of children and save them from domestic violence.
Petitioner Natasha Lakhani had submitted that thousands of street children were roaming in the city and several were being used in criminal activities, begging and other anti-social activities.
The Sindh High Court was informed that two shelter homes were being constructed in Korangi and Malir to accommodate around 400 street children. Photo by Ikram Junaidi/File
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court was informed that two shelter homes were being constructed in Korangi and Malir to accommodate around 400 street children.
A two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar directed the police to come up with a progress report on Jan 27 about the investigation of cases lodged against a mafia involved in child beggary.
When a petition seeking implementation of the Sindh Child Protection Authority Act, 2011 came up for hearing, authority director general Azeem-ur-Rehman Meo submitted that a shelter home for street children was being constructed on an area of 10 acres in Korangi, where at least 300 kids would be accommodated while another building was also being constructed in Malir to house around 100 children.
National
December 26, 2020
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the police to submit a progress report on cases involving child beggary that had been charge-sheeted after they were registered at the police stations of Karachi and other districts of province, and explain what action they had taken against the mafia involved in the beggary of children. The direction came on a petition seeking implementation of the Sindh Child Protection Authority law in the province to protect the rights of children. Petitioner Natasha Lakhani had submitted that thousands of street children were roaming in the city and several were being used in criminal activities, begging and other anti-social activities. The court on a previous hearing had directed a provincial law officer to call a report from the police department including details of action taken against the mafia involved in the beggary of children as the social welfare department had submitted that various cases had been lodged a