Suspect killed, cop injured in shootout

A suspect was shot dead and a cop sustained bullet injuries during an exchange of gunfire on Mirza Adam Khan Road during the small hours of Tuesday.

Garden SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said a police mobile was conducting snap checking on Mirza Adam Khan Road when a cop directed a motorcyclist to stop. But the man opened fire on the police party and injured ASI Muhammad Ali, 28, he added.

SHO Afridi said the police retaliated and killed the assailant. A TT pistol and a motorcycle were found on the killed suspect and the body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities, he added.

Afridi said the body was later moved to a mortuary for want of identification. The suspect was apparently a Baloch but his identity could not be ascertained immediately, he added. 

Muggers injure man 

Muggers shot and injured a man for resisting a robbery bid in the Orangi Town’s MPR Colony. The Orangi Town police said Bakhti Zaheer, 40, was injured by muggers for putting up resistance.  The victim was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for treatment where doctors, after initial treatment, said the man was out of danger. 

‘Civil service reforms a must to improve governance’

Admitting the pressing need for civil service reforms, Sindh Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon has said the reforms were imperative to improve the bureaucratic system and to ensure good governance.

Addressing a workshop jointly organised by the Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms (PD&R), and the Services General Administration & Coordination Department on Tuesday, he said the provincial government was working to improve the service structure in collaboration with the PD&R ministry for betterment of the service delivery system in the larger national interest.

PD&R federal secretary Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said service reforms were essential for promotion and development of the system and both the federal and provincial governments were making efforts to streamline the overall system.

He expressed pleasure over participation of civil servants, parliamentarians, journalists and people from different walks of life in the workshop. 

Lawmaker Mehtab Akbar Rashdi, MPA Prof Dr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, Dr Falah Muhammad Burfat, Sindh DIG Aftab Pathan, Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) member Ghulam Shabbir Shah, provincial secretaries Mohsin Ali Shah, Raziuddin Qureshi, Riazuddin Soomro, Zulfiqar Ali Shallwani, Sajid Jamal Abro, Abdul Haleem Shaikh, Qazi Shahid Pervez and PD&R member Suhail Safdar also spoke on the occasion and made recommendations in group discussions.