SHC directs to stop salaries of 'missing' KMC, KWSB employees.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday directed the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC), Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), and excise and taxation and local government departments to ensure that the salaries of missing persons should not be released.

While hearing dozens of petitions about the recovery of missing persons, the two-judge SHC bench headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha directed the Karachi mayor, KWSB managing director and secretaries of the local government and excise and taxation to file a compliance report till Oct 31.

In the last hearing, the bench had sought a report from Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and an official the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced...