CM berates Sindh bureaucracy for poor performance

E-Paper | March 04, 2026

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah lashed out at the provincial bureaucracy on Wednesday for illegal appointments, non-utilisation of development funds and not attending offices on time, etc.

He directed all administrative secretaries to submit a detailed list of all vacant posts in their respective departments within three days and warned them they action would be taken against them if they failed to meet the deadline.

Mr Shah was chairing a meeting of all the administrative secretaries at the Sindh secretariat.

He made it clear that all appointments, if any, made during the ban period would be treated as illegal and unauthorised.

Informed sources told Dawn that the chief minister said that certain secretaries used their influence (sifarish) to get lucrative postings but he considered such officers as incompetent.

He also took them to task for not attending their offices on time. He said he had paid surprise visits on different occasions, but found almost every secretary absent.

The sources said that the education secretary informed the meeting about some appointments from grade 1 to 15 in certain districts, which he said were illegal. He proposed that such appointments should be made through the Sindh Public Service Commission to ensure transparency and merit.

The CM said that as soon as he took the office after the May 11, 2013 general election, he imposed a ban on employment.

He said that no officer would be allowed to ignore or violate the ban and whosoever found responsible would be taken to task.

He directed the secretaries to not take the government’s policies lightly and to comply with them in letter and spirit.

The sources said that the services secretary informed the CM that around 400 lower grade officers had been promoted while promotion of grade 18 and 19 officers was required in order to end the OPS (own pay scale) practice. The CM directed the provincial secretaries to ensure the promotions of the officers in their departments through the regular department promotion committees on merit.

The services secretary also informed the meeting that around 500 graft cases against different officers were pending before the anti-corruption establishment.

Acting Sindh police chief Ghulam Hyder Jamali also attended the meeting.

Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2014

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Ali

Aug 07, 2014 08:14am

If you see all projects in Sindh you will find that maximum ex-service man with 65 years of age are re-employed. My question is once the government retire a person after 60 plus then how he or she can deliver in the field. Zindabad

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A Concerned Pakistani

Aug 07, 2014 08:54am

No..no..Mr.Chief Minister. Don't hide behind the poor performance of your bureaucracy. You are the captain of administration. Learn to accept your failure. The appetite for corruption in your party is beyond one's imagination. When your minister do corruption, they do it with the help of bureaucracy. So both the parties are busy in making a lot of money. Who cares about good governance, public service and welfare of common people when the sole objective is to loot as much as possible.

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Jhangir

Aug 07, 2014 12:00pm

During Ramadan I visited Karachi posh area, but very sad to say that the life of even posh area is misreable no cleanness and encrochment are increasing with the help of of political parties. What will be the other poor areas? For confirmation news men can visit Alamgir road near Alamgir welfare you will find no cleanness and enchrochment of road from restuarents. Even inside residential area behined Bahaiji Arcad in front of Gul-e-Bhar marriage hall, you will find encrochement from one of street vendors who has influence in encrochment department. Another in resedential area in front of Gul-e- bhar a villa was rented to one of leading grocery chain as whare house. Even Our religion teach us cleanness is half Iman, but we are not following instruction of our prophet Muhammad PBUH due to some benefit of life in this world. I do not undertand what we are providing our future nation due to this calture, this type of ignorance of society become practice of life. These type of people receive punishment from Allah in shape of health problems, no mercy from Allah, even some people lost their children and themself life by any means murder or accidents,or in house life destoyed.

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Mohammad Iqbal

Aug 07, 2014 12:57pm

CM must now act and do something which we appreciate. Particularly, the education department is in tatters. About 6000 files are dumped in GGSS, Frere Town ( Now converted to SZAB Law College) For promotion purposes the DDO and relevant staff took 5000 rupees for pile ( an mind blogging amount of 30 million looted from poor teachers. This is just one example of how the secretaries are running the departments. There is no excise staff to collect MV Tax in most of the National Bank Branches. CM must come out of his fixed nest and dont depend on sharjeels and sharmilas who are nothing but chamchas which Mughal emperors use to have.

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optimist

Aug 07, 2014 10:21pm

@Jhangir Why bring religion in to the performance of the municipality. The problem is the CM of Sind. I suggest the faderal government impose government rule in Sind and bring in Shahbaz Shareef as CM for just six months, we all will see the difference. The city was run efficiently by Mustafa Kamal but then the funds were not leaked to CM house so he was removed when PPP Asif Ali Zardari became president. The Sind problem is inefficiency more than corruption, relatives and friends were appointted by the CM and Minister Amin Fahim. If PPP wants to improve its image they must fire the CM immediately and do an audit of the use of his funds. Time for PPP chairman Bilalwal Zardari to take charge.

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Muhammad Kashif

Aug 08, 2014 12:17am

Merit seems a distant dream in Sindh even most of the appointments that take place through SPSC are not merit based. The CM must also investigate how many of his cabinet ministers have given jobs in this period and how many of them attend their offices on time. Both politicians and bureaucrats are equally responsible for the worsening socio-economic condition of Sindh which stands in no comparison with Punjab.

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abdull

Aug 08, 2014 01:31am

poor people of sindh have been left on the mercy of these feudals,, very unfortunate to see the old shah passing the buck on others. every person from top to bottom is corrupt, no education, no health, no peace.,, just corruption and favoritism. i wonder when these feudal lords will be taken to task. waiting for the day,,when the poor people of sindh will see development in their province,, but dont see any hope atleast in my life time.

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Kamal Ahmed

Aug 08, 2014 06:40am

No doubts almost all Sindh bureaucrats are inefficient and corrupts.They must be asked to sit in qualification exam under supervision of IBA or LUMS.I don't think they even qualify twelveth grade exam.These are Safarishi Afsar and they will never deliver.How green plates are being misused, one can see on highways, Schools and Malls.They must be brought under Biometric attendance system and their working performance be watched peridically with different t monitoring system.Beraucrats of a country are elite crops and back bone of Administrative system.They run the government's machineries that help keep things going on efficiently both nationally internationally and locally but these safarisi Afsar have destroyed the sanctity of this prestigious system .

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