KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Friday decided to impose a complete ban on recruitment in any government department and autonomous organisations.

The decision was taken at the last meeting of the Murad Ali Shah-led cabinet that met here.

However, the cabinet decided that there would be no ban on the recruitment process being carried out by the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) and necessary recruitment in the development projects launched with the assistance of donor agencies.

Speaking at the farewell meeting, Chief Minister Shah said that he, his cabinet members, and all the MPAs of the Pakistan Peoples Party were going back to the people with “dignity and respect because they stood by them at a difficult time and served them to the best of their abilities”.

He recalled that at the start of his government tenure in 2018, the then federal government was not ready to cooperate and tried to destabilise the PPP government in Sindh.

He thanked his cabinet members, Chief Secretary Sohail Rajput and former chief secretary Syed Mumtaz Shah for their support and cooperation.

He also thanked the secretaries, heads of provincial government institutions, staff of the CM House and those who worked with him during his tenure.

The cabinet members lauded the chief minister for his performance, his resolute stand to protect the rights of the people of Sindh, and his support to them when they were harassed by the National Accountability Bureau and other institutions at the hands of the then federal government of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

Published in Dawn, August 12th, 2023