Sindh Governor Imran Ismail wants provincial police chief Mushtaq Mahar replaced with immediate effect. Governor Ismail has written a letter to Prime Minister Imran Khan and informed him about the details of Haleem Adil Sheikh s arrest. He alleged that the Sindh Assembly opposition leader was tortured in custody.
The Sindh government has moved the security quarters for upgrading the security of the Sindh Assembly after the disclosure made by terrorists arrested recently by the Counter Terrorism Department .
Terrorist shot dead, five others arrested in Shah Latif Town operation
Karachi
February 9, 2021
Officials of Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) gunned down a “notorious terrorist and bomber” and arrested five others, all of whom believed to be operatives of a foreign hostile intelligence agency, during an operation in the Shah Latif area in the wee hours of Monday.
Later, a media briefing was held at the CTD Sindh headquarters that was attended by Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, the provincial police chief, CTD Sindh chief DIG Omar Shahid Hamid and Raja Umer Khattab, chief of the Transnational Terrorists Intelligence Group who led the operation.
Vaccine doses arrive in Karachi
Jabs stored in health dept’s depot at optimum temperature
PHOTO: REUTERS
KARACHI:
The first tranche of Sinopharm vaccine doses, numbering 83,000, was handed over to the Sindh Health Department on Tuesday.
The doses, which were sent via an aeroplane, have been stored in the provincial health department’s depot, where temperature has been regulated to ensure that it is suitable for storing the vaccine doses.
The doses were received by Expanded Programme on Immunisation officials.
Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazl Pechuho and security officials reviewed the arrangements for transporting the doses to the depot and the EPI’s cold chain storage.
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January 26, 2021
KARACHI: The provincial Apex Committee meeting was told on Monday that the Anti-Terrorism Financing Unit (ATFU) has recovered Rs10.249 billion during five years from 2015 to 2020 and registered 144 cases and arrested 90 accused, of them 19 were convicted. However, the fate of critical Safe City project continues to hang in the balance as a company contracted for installing 10,000 cameras in Karachi has now been asked to give inputs about the project s feasibility and its PC 1.
While presiding over the 25th meeting of provincial Apex Committee at the CM House, the Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, said the terrorists have no ethnicity, religion, language or nationality but their inhuman proclivity with like-minded elements makes it mandatory to regularly review the threat assessment to keep our city, the province and the country secure. The meeting was attended by Corps Commander Karachi, Chief Secretary, IGP Sindh, DG Rangers, Information Minis