Saturday 9 March 2019

CM condemns clash on floor of Sindh Assembly

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has condemned the incident that took place on the floor of the assembly on Thursday and said it was quite deplorable and uncalled for. He said these incidents should not take place in the assembly which had passed the Pakistan Resolution. He was talking to the media at the NED University where he attended a two-day international conference.He said that the clash that took place during the Sindh Assembly session was quite deplorable. “I condemn it in strong words, it is uncalled for and I have never seen such an attitude before in the assembly,” he said and added the inexperienced assembly members had no knowledge of the code of conduct and respect for the august house and its members. “They just want to play with the galleries and hit the headlines but what message they are giving to their constituents through this deplorable attitude,” he asked.Mr Shah said that the opposition members tried to manhandle a member of the MMA. “This is a very wrong tradition being developed in the house by the opposition,” he said and added he would try to develop a conducive and friendly atmosphere in the assembly because this was the assembly which had passed the resolution for the creation of Pakistan.To a question, the chief minister said that the issues of education boards and universities were not new. He said that in 2016 he had got conducted an inquiry into an educational board by the CTD because it had the expertise. “I had the powers to oust chairmen board but I wanted to book them for making malpractices,” he said and added: “We he started taking action, some went to the court and sought protection while some others used other protection.”Mr Shah said that he was trying to make educational boards work fairly free from any interference. “We have to make these institutions strong enough so that no illegal work can be done there,” he said.Talking about the appointment of Haris Gardezi as his coordinator, the chief minister said that he was a senior economist. He would help create social protection in our ongoing and new projects.

from The News International - National https://ift.tt/2SRbGok
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