Qaim threatens to move court over police powers to FIA

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that conferring policing powers to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is against the concept of provincial autonomy and his government will move the court if the Centre did not withdraw these powers. He said this while addressing a press conference after the visit of the prime minister to Karachi on Wednesday and presiding over meetings at the CM House. In the background of recent actions and raids by the federally-controlled FIA, NAB and Sindh Rangers against certain officials in Sindh for their alleged corrupt practices and past misdeeds, the chief minister said the PPP had always struggled for the sake of securing provincial autonomy.