Anti-corruption chief orders raids, arrests

Karachi
The Sindh anti-corruption department chief ordered on Monday a crackdown on corrupt government officials across the province including those in cahoots with the tanker mafia in Karachi and press charges against in courts within 15 days.
In a meeting with the department’s deputy directors at his office to review the progress made in high-profile corruption cases, Enquiries and Anti-Corruption Establishment chairman Mumtaz Ali Shah directed them to raid the offices of corrupt sub-registrars of co-operative housing societies and officers in the revenue and health departments and send them behind bars.
He ordered the deputy directors to set up an intelligence unit at their respective offices so that corruption could be monitored.
The official said as part an ongoing campaign against corruption, officers in working in departments other their own had been repatriated to their parent ones and a major reshuffle had been completed.
He asked the deputy directors to submit a report on the professional integrity of their subordinate staff – from constables to circle officers.
Shah also said the chief secretary and the divisional commissioners had decided to convene meetings of the anti-corruption committee every month and fortnightly to review and expedite progress in corruption cases.