Sindh Education Foundation to bring 200,000 children back to school
Karachi
January 14, 2021
The Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) is going to establish 1,000 educational institutions across the province under public-private partnership to bring 200,000 out-of-school children back to classrooms.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah took the decision during a meeting of the SEFâs board of governors that he chaired at the CM House on Wednesday.
The meeting was told that the SEF plans to set up a thousand schools that will be run by private partners, and these institutions will have the special task of bringing 200,000 out-of-school children back to classrooms. After a discussion, the board members approved the proposal.
Daniel Pearl, 38, was abducted in Karachi in January 2002 while doing a research on religious extremism. Dawn archives
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday asked the advocate general of Sindh to advance arguments as to whether the Supreme Court’s order still holds the field regarding detention of four men acquitted in abduction and murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
A division bench of the SHC adjourned the hearing till Jan 20 on the request of assistant advocate general Muhammad Yousif Rahpoto after he stated that the AG Sindh would appear before the court in this matter on the next date, as today he was busy before the Supreme Court.
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CM Murad Ali Shah sets time frames to clear irrigation department properties of encroachments
Karachi
January 3, 2021
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has set time frames for the removal of encroachments from the provincial irrigation departmentâs properties, including embankments, headworks and drainage systems.
The chief executive took this decision during a meeting that he presided over at the CM House on Saturday to prepare a plan to remove encroachments from the irrigation departmentâs properties.
The meeting was attended by Irrigation Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal, CMâs law adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Ali Shah, Board of Revenue Senior Member Qazi Shahid Pervaiz, Advocate General Salman Talibuddin, CMâs Principal Secretary Sajid Jamal Abro, Irrigation Secretary Rafiq Buriro, Katchi Abadis Secretary Baqaullah Unar and others.