Sindh to replicate PM's initiatives to address civic issues.

ISLAMABAD -- The Sindh government has agreed to replicate three initiatives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to address civic issues by providing planned graveyards, curbing violence against women and giving opportunity to working women to have their own mode of travelling.

According to Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on PM's Strategic Reforms Initiatives (PMSRI) Salman Sufi, the three initiatives are Shehr-i-Khamoshan (well-maintained graveyards), training and provision of motorbikes to deserving working women under the Women On Wheels (WOW) programme and establishing centres on Violence Against Women (VAW).

The initiatives will be extended to all over the country with the assistance of provincial governments and initially they are being launched in Punjab and Sindh.

'Punjab and Sindh have been taken on board and they are jointly implementing the initiatives with the PMSRI,' he added.

Appreciating the PM's initiatives, chief ministers Syed Murad Ali Shah of Sindh and Hamza Shehbaz of Punjab have called meetings of the committees on PM's strategic reforms for implementing the relevant projects.

In this regard, a committee was constituted and notified by the government of Sindh on June 7 to supervise and finalise modalities/roadmap for initiating and implementing the initiatives.

A source said negotiations were under way with the government of Balochistan and Khyber PakhtunA!khwa for extending the initiatives to these provinces. 'Letters have also been written to the governments of Balochistan and KP for rolling out the PM's initiatives,' the source added.

A VAW centre has already been set up in Multan and work is under way to establish such a centre in Larkana, Sindh, which is likely to be completed by November and will become functional in December...