Sindh set to approach Centre for probe into fake domicile cases.

Byline: Mohammad Hussain Khan

HYDERABAD -- Sindh government intends to seek details of recruitment from the federal government about those given jobs by the latter on the basis of candidates' Sindh domicile over the last two decades.

The Sindh government has also decided to form divisional-level committees, headed by commissioners, to scrutinise cases of domiciles, to detect fake ones, issued over the past decade.

A set of decisions has been taken by Sindh government after Senior Member Board of Revenue Qazi Shahid Pervez, at the head of a committee, submitted his findings to it a few days back.

The decisions on the committee's report were taken by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah whose government has already announced that action will be taken against those administration officials found responsible for the issuance of fake domiciles and permanent residence certificates (PRCs).

Sindh chief secretary has reportedly been asked to write to the federal government seeking details of jobs and particulars of candidates who had been recruited in federal departments and corporations on Sindh quota over the last 20 years.

The CS is the competent authority to approach federal government. The Sindh government has taken the decisions mainly and apparently on the basis of recommendations of the Qazi-led committee. BoR officer Nazeer Qureshi is one of the members of the committee formed by the Sindh government in the backdrop of an outcry over issuance of fake domiciles to non-natives of the provinces.

Details of admissions given in the public sector colleges and universities over the last five years in Sindh would also be collected and compiled.

A committee headed by Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah with CM's Adviser on Law Barrister Murtaza Wahab, the additional chief chief secretary (home), secretaries of law and services and general administration (S and GA) being its members is also being formed to examine rules of domicile PRC and submit its recommendations whether these rules need to be changed.

It would examine the laws in detail with special focus on PRCs, an important document.

Domiciles in Sindh are issued under the Citizenship Act, 1950 while PRCs are issued under the Sindh Permanent Residents Certificate Rules, 1971. Both these legislations would be examined by the committee led by Syed Nasir Shah. The 1950 Act is a federal legislation and could be amended only by the parliament while the 1971 Rules are provisional...