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CM Qaim Ali Shah rejects division of Sindh
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. -File Photo
LARKANA: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that Sindh is already a small province and the question of creating a province out of it does not arise.
'Historical boundaries of Sindh would remain intact and the people thinking on those lines were wrong,' he said while answering a journalist’s question about the creation of new provinces in the country.
He was talking to newsmen here on Tuesday after offering condolences over the death of a lawyer, Muneer Khichi, and his father.
The chief minister admitted shortage of irrigation water in Sindh, but said the situation would improve within a couple of days.
In reply to a question, he said Rs800 million had been released for payment to rice growers.
After an inquiry into paddy procurement by the Pakistan Agriculture Supply and Storage Corporation (Passco), the government would make payment, he said and added that he had talked to President Asif Zardari on the issue.
Mr Shah said the government was taking measures to provide maximum facilities to the growers to help increase the per acre yield.
He said Passco would procure damaged paddy and a committee, headed by DCO, would supervise the process in Larkana. He said the government was making efforts for the development of the province, but it was facing the problem of terrorism.
The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) had stopped coming into Sindh and those who had already come would soon return to their homes, he said.
Answering a question about equipping Sindh police with modern weapons, he said the federal government would provide help in that matter. He claimed that the law and order, and police performance in Sindh were improving.
Condemning the murder of Muneer Khichi, a high court lawyer, and his father Zawar Manzoor Hussain Khichi, the chief minister said he had ordered for the early arrest of the culprits.
He announced that the elder son of the lawyer would be provided government job on merit.
He said that in the wake of public complaints about ongoing development works in Larkana district, the National Highway Authority (NHA) had been tasked to undertake and supervise the uplift schemes.
Earlier, Mr Shah went to Qambar to condole the death of Nawab Shabbir Ahmed Chandio, the chief of Chandio tribe and district nazim of Qambar-Shahdadkot.
DAWN: Wednesday, 01 Jul, 2009
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