The chief minister ordered on Monday that the accounts of the welfare organisations that had collected the hides of sacrificial animals this Eid-ul-Azha be audited.
Presiding over a meeting held in connection with the upcoming provincial apex committee meeting, Murad Ali Shah also approved Rs8 million for setting up an explosive material examination laboratory and ordered arranging a suitable land in Karachi for a forensic laboratory.
The apex committee had issued no-objection certificates to welfare organisations for collecting hides on Eidul Azha on the condition that they would have their accounts audited.
Chief secretary Siddique Memon told the chief minister that he had directed to divisional commissioners to audit the accounts of the welfare organisations.
Karachi commissioner Aijaz Khan told the chief minister that he had issued 687 NOCs to welfare organisations for hide collection.
The chief minister directed the commissioner to issue instructions to the organisations to inform the government about the revenue they had generated and how was it being utilised.
ATCs
Discussing the under-construction anti-terrorism courts, the chief secretary said six buildings were ready in the premises of the Central Jail Karachi where they could be housed.
IGP AD Khowaja said he had deployed 600 policemen to escort under-trial prisoners from the central jail to the ATCs in Clifton for their hearings.
The chief minister noted that it was risky to regularly send under-trial prisoners facing terrorism cases from the central jail to the ATCs in Clifton basis.
“When prisoners facing terrorism charges reach the ATCS, they stay there for a few hours which is very dangerous,” the chief minister observed.
He said the six ATCs in Clifton should be shifted to the newly constructed courts at the central jail.
Shah noted that the country was at war with terrorists and could not take risks.
In the next three months, 14 other court buildings will be ready for housing new ATCs.
The chief minister directed his principal secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch to coordinate with contracting firm and have the 14 ATC buildings ready within the next three months.
Forensic lab
The chief minister, reviewing the decisions made at the last apex committee meeting held on August 31, noted that a forensic laboratory was to be established.
The IGP said he was searching for a secure location this purpose.
However, an explosives laboratory could be set up if the government approved an amount of Rs8 million. The chief minister approved the proposal.
Informing the chief minister about the progress of another apex committee decision, the IGP said he had initially formed two anti-riot police units, one in the South zone and the other in Hyderabad comprising 300 cops.
Home secretary Shakeel Mangnejo said he was working on the establishment of anti-riot units in divisional headquarters. The chief minister directed the IGP and the home secretary to set up another unit in Karachi.
In the last apex committee meeting it was decided that explosives being sold by registered companies would be checked. The chief secretary said he had issued the necessary directives to all commissioners to monitor the purchase and sale of explosives.
Number plates
Talking about the introduction of new vehicle number plates with security features including a tracking system, the chief secretary said the Sindh excise and taxation department had a started consultative process for this purpose.
The IGP told the chief minister that a 1,100-stiong force for CPEC projects security had been formed while the recruitment for the remaining 900 personnel was in progress.
Earlier, the IGP and additional IG counter-terrorism department Sanaullah Abbasi briefed the chief minister on the attack on a majlis at a house in Nazimabad.
They told him some suspects had been arrested and the attack was being investigated.