KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the provincial government to release funds for Karachi Metropolitan Corporation to ensure payment of fire risk allowance to the firefighters within a month.

Headed by Justice Irfan Saadat Khan, a two-judge bench was hearing the applications of civil rights campaigners Advocate Nadeem Shaikh and Shua-un-Nabi, who prayed to the court to direct the respondent authorities to release funds for payment of fire risk allowance.

The lawyers informed the judges that 1,200 firefighters of Karachi were not being paid fire risk allowance for last several months yet they were still performing their duties.

Published in Dawn, February 10th, 2018