Allegations leveled by Ibad, Mustafa Kamal against each other are of serious nature: CM

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan and former city Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, have leveled allegations of a serious nature against each other.

The Sindh CM said that probe was already on into the Baldia factory fire incident and other similar issues (featured in the exchange of allegations).   The CM stated this while talking to newsmen on Thursday after attending convocation of Altmash Institute of Dental Medicine here at a hotel.

The CM said that development work was continuing in Karachi, and soon the citizens of Karachi would see the results.  He said that due consideration was being given to the issues of the provincial Higher Education Commission in Sindh as all these issues would be sorted out.

The CM said that the Federal Board of Revenue had unduly deducted at source Rs6 billion from the accounts of Local Government and Excise and Taxation Departments of Sindh government on account of income tax payments of the employees as for resolving this issue correspondence had been done with Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.  

He said the relevant departments of Sindh government had also been pursuing with federal authorities concerned the case of undue deduction from their accounts by the FBR on account of income tax to get their money back.

CHANDIO MEDIA TALK: Advisor to Sindh chief minister on information Moula Bakhsh Chandio has said that for the first time serious allegations were leveled against Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan, and the governor himself should conduct probe into these allegations.

Speaking to media persons on Thursday, the provincial information advisor said that the Sindh governor had come under a volley of allegations as earlier it had been better for him to remain silent as now he had spoken on his own issue.  Chandio said that no person involved in the killing of innocent people would be pardoned.

He said that the Sindh governor should conduct probe into the allegations leveled against him and give results as it was up to the federation to take the decision whether Dr Ebad should remain governor or not.  The provincial advisor said that he would not be assigned any new responsibilities in the People’s Party.