KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah’s government cancelled at least 550,000 unverified arms licenses.
“However, the cancelled licenses could be revalidated if necessary documents are presented. Otherwise they stand cancelled,” said Shah.
Shah talked to media after a Rehabilitation Response (RR) programme at FPCCI here on Saturday (today).
The Chief Minister said that the Sindh government had been extending date for verification of arms licenses from time to time but “I have refused to extend the further and have cancelled over 550,000 license which had not been verified so far,” he said and added “my government has decided to give an opportunity to the holders of cancelled licenses to file an application with the home department to revalidate their licenses but all this depends upon the authentication of the required documents.
Replying to a question, Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the special assistants and minister have not been appointed on `son-quota’ basis but majority of them are elected (MPAs) and a few have been picked up to give representation to a particular community or on technical basis.
The chief minister said that he had launched a Rs10 billion special package to repair, rehabilitate, recast and reconstruct important roads of the city. “I know Karachi contributes in the national exchequer more than any other city, therefore it must be given due share for which I am striving hard and working to give a new beautiful shape to this city,” he said.
Syed Murad Shah said that another glaring issue of the city is water. “Tomorrow on August 14, I am going to launch K-IV project to provide 260 MGD water to the residents of this city, and this would also help to provide more water to the industrialists,” he assured and said it was first phase of K-IV and then there would be another phase for another 260 MGD.
