Provincial govt to construct Sindh house, tunnel in Gilgit-Baltistan

 CM Murad approves naming college after martyred PAF pilot Mairum Mukhtar; orders inquiry into two fresh polio cases reported in Sindh

A ‘Sindh House’ would be constructed in Gilgit-Baltistan, while one of the five tunnels on the CPEC route in GB would be named the ‘Sindh Tunnel’, were decisions taken during a meeting between Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and his Gilgit-Baltistan counterpart Hafiz Hafeez Rehman, on Friday.

Land for the Sindh House would be allotted to the Sindh government by the GB administration, as it had to all the other provinces for their respective houses, Rehman informed the Sindh CM. 

Murad appreciating his counterpart’s spirit accepted the offer, stating that it would help establish an interaction with the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.

On the other hand, the Sindh Tunnel would be decorated by the provincial government according to its culture in a bid to represent the people of Sindh in GB - each of the five tunnels have been named after the country’s provinces.

Murad while addressing the GB CM said it was the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government that granted GB the status of a province, and that with time, the area would acquire a full-fledged constitutional cover.

“Poverty in Gilgit-Baltistan would alleviate and the province would definitely grow economically, and its tourist industry would flourish with infrastructural development,” Murad asserted.

The Sindh CM, accepting Rehman’s offer for the tunnel directed his principle secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch to submit a proposal for the project and send a team to visit the tunnel to get an idea of how to go about the project.

However, Rehman urged Murad to increase the quota of GB students in the Chandka Medical College from two seats, as well as to allot more seats to the province’s students in other medical colleges of Sindh.

Promising to increase the number of seats in the colleges, Murad also assured his counterpart to visit GB along with his cabinet. 

College named after martyred PAF pilot 

Murad approved naming a college after the martyred Pakistan Air Force pilot Marium Mukhtar, who died last year as her trainer jet crashed near Mianwali.

Sindh Chief Minister approved the summary to name the newly constructed Government Girls College, adjacent to APWA school, in Liaquatabad, as Shaheed Flying Officer Marium Mukhtiar Government Girls Degree College, Liaquatabad, Karachi.

 

Inquiry into polio cases ordered

The Sindh CM also ordered an inquiry into the media reports of two new polio cases reported in districts of Dadu and Badin, three days ago.

According to reports two fresh cases of the crippling disease were reported from Piaro station in Dadu and Golarchi in Badin.

Murad directed secretary health to conduct an inquiry and report to him whether the cases were actually of polio or some other virus.