case. This is not fair and it has invited the wrath of my party,” he said.
The chief minister said: “My party is not satisfied with the action taken against Dr Asim. They hold me responsible because they (PPP) have elevated me to the position of the chief minister. Being an elected chief minister and head of the provincial apex committee, I must be consulted,” he said.
He said Dr Asim was the chairman of the provincial Higher Education Commission and had the status equivalent to a minister here. “Moreover, he had also remained the president of PMA (Pakistan Medical Association) while he enjoyed popularity in the medical circles here,” said the CM. He said that Dr Asim would soon come back after being released honourably.
The chief minister claimed the FIA would return from here (Sindh) in the coming one to two days while the other federal agencies would also stop interfering in provincial affairs. “We are also working so that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is stopped from committing excesses here,” he said.
Qaim Ali Shah said that he had talked twice to the prime minister and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on the issue of interference by the FIA and NAB in affairs of the Sindh government as both had assured him that reservations of the province with regard to the federal investigating and anti-corruption agencies would soon be allayed.
The CM had termed the recent stepped-up activities of the two federal agencies “invasion by NAB and FIA of Sindh”.
“The prime minister had told me that he was not aware of their actions and had assured me of redressing our grievances but even then raids continued on the Civic Centre,” he deplored.
The CM said that Inspector General of Sindh Police and DG Rangers were under his administration as the operation in Karachi was going on under his control while he was fully responsible for the operation being conducted here. He said that in last two years, there had been a marked decrease in instances of target killings, extortion of money, kidnappings for ransom and terrorism in the province including Karachi.
“The Sindh government was given the task of eliminating target killings, money extortion, terrorism and kidnappings for ransom. Thanks God, within two years, all these issues have been largely eradicated,” he said.