Pakistan

Shake-up in Sindh cabinet, bureaucracy on the cards

New ministers are likely to be inducted in the provincial cabinet

RAZZAk ABRO July 22, 2015

Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto. PHOTO: PID/FILE

KARACHI: The top leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided to shake up the Sindh cabinet and take action against corrupt officers in the provincial bureaucracy, sources told Daily Express.

A special meeting of the PPP leadership, co-chaired by Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari in Dubai Tuesday evening, expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of some of the provincial ministries and departments.

The meeting, attended by Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, MNA Faryal Talpur and Senator Rehman Malik, reviewed the overall performance of the Sindh government.

It also reviewed the performance of the provincial ministries and government departments. According to sources, the meeting expressed disappointment over not removing the inefficient or corrupt officers from their posts. The meeting also exchanged views on the forthcoming local bodies’ elections in Sindh and Punjab. The leadership directed the local leadership to devise a strategy for the party’s active and successful participation in the polls. Chief Minister Shah is expected to make changes in the provincial set-up after his return from Dubai. He is also likely to induct new faces in the provincial cabinet.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 22^nd, 2015.

COMMENTS (15)

Naeem Majid | 8 years ago | Reply Zardari is like the Joker in the Batman movie Nawaz Shariff is the Penguin. Imran Khan is Batman and Gotham is Pakistan. Hope that our Batman kicks Zardari and Nawaz Shariff into prision.

S.R.H. Hashmi | 8 years ago | Reply According to the news report, being dissatisfied with their performance, Peoples Party meeting in Dubai has decided on reshuffling in ministries and departments. And these changes would be made after Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah returns to Pakistan. And that means Qaim Ali Shan Is there for life or at least for the foreseeable future. As for other changes, these can only be made from within the available pool of ‘talent’, and for that very reason, it does not offer much hope. As for ending for corruption in departments, well, it was reported sometime back that a top official used to pass on a certain sum to Bilawal House on regular basis. Now if all corruption is eliminated, where would the money come to maintain the Bilawal Houses and mansions all over the world, and to sustain the royal style, with an interior-Sindh based party holding its meetings in Dubai, and participants coming from as far as UK. Karachi

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Peace | 8 years ago | Reply It is much funny that Destiny of Sindh and Pakistan is being decided in Dubai. Is it capital of sindh ?

S.R.H. Hashmi | 8 years ago | Reply According to the news report, being dissatisfied with their performance, Peoples Party meeting in Dubai has decided on reshuffling in ministries and departments. And these changes would be made after Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah returns to Pakistan. And that means Qaim Ali Shah Is there for life or at least for the foreseeable future. As for other changes, these can only be made from within the available pool of ‘talent’, and for that very reason, it does not offer much hope. As for ending for corruption in departments, well, it was reported sometime back that a top official used to pass on a certain sum to Bilawal House on regular basis. Now if all corruption is eliminated, where would the money come to maintain the Bilawal Houses and mansions all over the world, and to sustain the royal style, with an interior Sindh based party holding its meetings in Dubai, and participants coming from as far as UK. Karachi

ishrat salim | 8 years ago | Reply Yet we have supporters of PPP & PML N who thinks that " what they are doing is fine ". Both the parties are a washed in milk. It is due to this kind of support & patronage that both the parties are surviving while the poor general public are suffering.

Mrs Juicy Gossips | 8 years ago | Reply @OBSERVER: Yet another jokers convention in Dubai. Someone needs to pull the plug on this insult to national 'intelligence', whatever that is...?

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply Zero accountability for the old lot........and now more loot and plunder by the new lot.

Sodomite | 8 years ago | Reply @OBSERVER: You are right. Dubai is capital of Upper Sind while Karachi is capital of Lower Sind.

Agha mujtaba | 8 years ago | Reply Corrupt leadership deciding the faith of corrupt officials.

Asad Shairani | 8 years ago | Reply What a joke. Zardari and Memon expressing disappointment over corruption!

Sajjad shah | 8 years ago | Reply The leadership of the PPP is itself corrupt and now become a family run business to benefit the family not Sind or pakistan . The new faces will be just as corrupt as the old as they too will be controlled and directed by the old corrupt leadership . We really don't need any more Zardaris or bhuttos anymore but need freedom from the slavery and corruption of their politics . We have floods and the worst every problems in pakistans history but none of them dare meet in pakistan but always abroad to keep on fooling and looting our nation . Then they talk about dictators when they have ruined the country in every way with a democracy limited to them and their kids ! Dictatorships are far more palatable than this sick joke of a democracy worse than any dictatorship!

the Skunk | 8 years ago | Reply It pains me to write that Pakistan has been lost. Independence, sovereignty, self-sufficiency are words meant only for the dictionaries and lip service. The two most accursed documents in Pakistan today is the NRO and Charter of Democracy (Muk Muka). All past and present evils stem from it. Where is accountability??? Salams

Rasul Baksh Tamachi | 8 years ago | Reply But...but...see...but, these people attending the meeting in Dubai are part and parcel of the ongoing corruption !! How can this Sindh Cartel stop corruption ? They receive their cuts and bribes from every single scam and embezzlement going on in Sindh, especially, in Karachi. they are the Water Mafia, [that is an $ 8 million dollars a day scam repeat $ 8 million a day !] They sell electricity, at exorbitant rates. They are land grabbing,..it goes on and on. THEY ARE the problem. How can they be part of the solution??

Disgusting | 8 years ago | Reply The problem is with the top leadership which should be shaken up hard and sacked. Why can't party be headed by some one other than B or Z. These silly champions of democracy and their sillier followers that unfortunately include some educated persons, should jump in the nearest cup of water. They should be ashamed of themselves and should leave politics. Simply disgraceful.

OBSERVER | 8 years ago | Reply Dubai should be made official capital of Sindh..

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