Qaim Ali Shah is the oldest politician in Pakistan and he is perhaps the only politician in Sindh who has managed to grab the chief minister seat maximum time and for the longest duration. Not only the chief minister hot seat, Qaim Ali Shah has also found himself on all the important Sindhi and PPP [...]
Investigation into alleged education department corruption initiated by the Chief Minister’s Inspection Team (CMIT) is the actual reason for the dispute on Monday between Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah and Senior Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq, sources told The News.
Shah had ordered the CMIT to investigate allegations of corruption [...]
Amid the daily reports of truculent Taliban’s interminable terrorism, explosions and deaths, coupled with a gasping economy with little respite for the indigent hoi polloi of the society, the unanimous approval of 7th National Finance Commission Award in Lahore the other day with Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif as the benign host, by all [...]
The PPP-led government has announced another welfare scheme, the Benazir Behan Basti Programme (BBBP), for poor women.
President Asif Ali Zardari announced this new scheme in a meeting with Sindh government officials at the Bilawal House here on Monday. The meeting was attended by Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, Governor Ishratul Ebad, provincial ministers Pir [...]
Opposition to the decision to elect Shaukat Tarin as a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senator on the technocrat seat from Sindh on the wishes of party chief and President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, did not come from the coalition partners of the PPP government in Sindh or from the opposition. The opposition to this [...]
Sindh Assembly’s First session marked the traditional violent brouhaha of Pakistan People’s Party activists. PPP considers itself the champions of democracy and their co-chairman is flailing his arms frantically for the reconciliation from Khyber to Karachi, but the ground realities are much different.
The former chief minister of Sindh Dr. Arbab Ghulam Rahim may not be [...]
At last after much ado, negotiations and manipulations, Pakistan People’s Party has decided to present Agha Siraj Durrani as their candidate for the top slot in Sindh province. Many names were under consultations which included the names of Nisar Khoro, Qaim Ali Shah and even Aftab Shaban Mirani who had lost his seat in national [...]
