Sindh reinstates 621 employees sacked by PML-N govt
By: Tahir Hasan Khan
Karachi: The Sindh government has reinstated the services of 621 government employees who were sacked by the Nawaz Sharif government in the late 1990s.
This was announced by Law Minister Muhammad Ayaz Soomro at a press conference on Wednesday.
He claimed that the PPP had fulfilled its promise and reinstated the services of the sacked employees.
Soomro said Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah had formed a committee which examined the cases and recommended to the government to reinstate those employees.
The committee had invited the employees whose services were terminated by the Nawaz Sharif government.
A total of 1,848 employees approached the committee, which, after examining the matter on a case-to-case basis, decided to restore the services of 621 employees of 24 departments of the provincial government.
The law minister said that the employees who had been facing corruption charges or those who had been removed on courts’ orders were not reinstated.
He said that those employees were appointed by the PPP government between 1994 and 1996, but the Sharif government sacked the employees of the Sindh government only.
Soomro said that a total of 36,000 employees of the federal and the provincial governments had been sacked, and a majority of them were reinstated by the federal and the provincial governments.
He further said that the Sindh government would give all benefits and promotions to the reinstated employees.
Meanwhile, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has ordered the shifting of prisoners belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement from the interior of Sindh to Karachi.
This was the first directive of the governor after resuming the office.
Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza had shifted the MQM activists to other prisons in Sindh from Karachi earlier this month, and the MQM had lodged a strong protest over this matter.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Manzoor Wasan called on Governor Ebad and briefed him on the steps he had taken to improve law and order and protect the life and property of people.
The minister also briefed the governor on the strategy to be adopted for improving the situation as well as on the efforts the government was making to secure the cooperation of other political parties in this regard. He also informed the governor that he had contacted other politicians.
Governor Ebad appreciated the efforts of the home minister and told him that the cooperation of all sections of society could bring positive results in maintaining peace.
He also said that different mafias had been involved in disturbing peace just for their personal interests, and directed the home minister to take steps to curb such mafias without any discrimination.
Source: The News
Date:7/21/2011
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