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KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was informed on Friday that the needy madressah students were not given any financial assistance from the zakat fund due to want of a no-objection certificate (NOC) from the home department and district administration. While furnishing statement and lawmakers’ written and verbal queries during Question Hour, Parliamentary Secretary for Auqaf, Zakat and Ushr Heer Soho said that the madressahs were not being issued NOC for availing the facility of financial assistance for deserving students as the procedure of obtaining an NOC from the home department and the district administration was complicated. She informed the lawmakers that the needy students of as many as 22 public-sector universities and poor patients at 26 different public and private hospitals were given financial aid from the zakat fund. ....