Scheme approved a decade ago but project far from completion, say petitioners
Sindh High Court building. PHOTO: EXPRESS
HYDERABAD:
As the establishment of a Sindh government-funded medical college in Hyderabad has been delayed for almost six years so far, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan has taken the matter to Sindh High Court.
The party s deputy convener Kanwar Naveed Jameel and three MPAs from Hyderabad, including Muhammad Rashid Khilji, Nadeem Ahmed Siddiqui and Nasir Hussain Qureshi submitted a petition in Hyderabad circuit bench on Monday. The medical college s scheme was approved 10 years ago but the project is still far from completion, deplored Jameel, while speaking to the media outside the court. He also blamed the Sindh government for not providing land for the establishment of the varsity funded by the federal government. He claimed that the MQM-P s lawmakers had also met Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah with regards to the allotment of land but they
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