For reasons best known to successive governments, the five-year development plans have become moribund for the past 18 years.
Gauging the status of development on a periodic basis is a prime prerequisite in public administration. Governments learn about the outcomes of public spending done in different sectors and locations through such exercises.
These assessments also provide the justifications for strategising investments through programme or project modes. For reasons best known to successive governments, the five-year development plans have become moribund for the past 18 years. One can argue about the success or otherwise of this time-tested approach to development planning.
However, it is abandoned without instituting an alternative, and apparently replaced by project-based spending in different sectors of performance. Various exercises of information gathering keep informing us about the drastic shortcomings and development related disparities between provinces, intra-pr
KARACHI, Apr. 14 (Gwadar Pro) - As the month of Ramadan is commencing from Wednesday in Pakistan, Chinese firms are tasked by the provincial Government of Sindh to clean Karachi, the country’s largest southern city during the holy month of fasting.
The Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) has an agreement with Changyi Kangjie Sanitation Engineering Company and Hangzhou Jinjiang Company to collect garbage from the different districts of Karachi city. The companies have been working in the city of Karachi for the past many years removing waste and junk from commercial and industrial areas.
During a recent meeting, SSWMB directed the Chinese companies to keep the city clean during Ramadan, according to a press statement. The officials of the Chinese companies informed the city government that the companies were mobilizing all their team members in this regard. They are lifting garbage from the city while adopting international standards.
Karachi
February 19, 2021
Police officials investigating a double murder that occurred in the Boat Basin on February 1 are have claimed making a major breakthrough, saying the young man and the married woman were not killed in the name of honour.
Another man present at the scene shot and killed Adnan and Ainy randomly, they said on Thursday, adding that they made the breakthrough with the help of CCTV footage and an eyewitness account.
The investigators, sharing the eyewitness account, said the man and the woman stopped in a Boat Basin street for some personal work when they saw an unknown man sitting in a car. An exchange of hot words occurred between the two and the car rider, who shot and killed them on the spot.
Police include slain woman’s stepfather in probe
Karachi
February 4, 2021
Though police investigations have failed to make any major breakthrough in solving the mystery behind the murders of a man and a married woman who were shot dead in Clifton’s Boat Basin area on Monday night, they have included the woman’s stepfather as a suspect in the probe.
On Wednesday, the investigators collected the calling data record of the young woman’s cell phone, which suggested that she had had frequent contacts with unknown persons.
Anila alias Ainy and a young man, Adnan, were riding a motorcycle when they were gunned down by unidentified assailants. Their bodies were taken to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center for autopsies. After getting details of the suspected phone numbers, the police conducted raids in Hijrat Colony, Sultanabad and their surrounding areas; however, no arrest was made.
Murdered woman’s stepfather included in probe
Murdered woman’s stepfather included in probe
With no headway in the probe of the murder of woman and a man in Boat Basin on Monday night, the police have now included the deceased woman s stepfather in the investigation.
The murdered man and woman, Adnan and Anila alias Ainy, were neighbours and residents of Hijrat Colony.
The police have acquired Anila s call data records and have been conducting raids in Hijrat Colony, Sultanabad and surrounding areas to nab suspects who were in constant touch with her.
According to the police, Anila hailed from Sargodha and used to live with her stepfather in Hijrat Colony. She was married, and in his statement to the police, Anila s husband, Altaf, said on the night of the murder, Anila had stepped out to buy medicine.