The ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has decided not to share the 7,600 vacancies available in different Sindh government departments with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), as the latter is determined to sit on opposition benches in the Sindh Assembly, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Under the reconciliation policy of President Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP leadership had decided to share a big chunk of the vacant positions with the city’s major political party. However, the party’s senior leadership in Sindh took up the matter with the president during his last visit to Karachi and it was decided that the vacant posts would be filled by the end of this year, but the jobs would be distributed among the PPP leaders, as they had been deprived of jobs and other packages from the government in their respective constituencies, sources privy to the development told Pakistan Today.
At least 7,600 vacancies from grade 1 to 14 are available in various administrative departments of the Sindh government. The details of available posts are: around 2,400 in the Health Department; 340 in Irrigation; 260 in Public Health Engineering; 182 in Agriculture; 27 in Coal and Energy Development Department; 71 in Culture; 388 in Works and Services; 44 in Rural Development; 970 in Law and Parliamentary Affairs; 10 in Auqaf Department; 10 in Environment; 31 in Finance; 33 in Information; 24 in Information Technology; 91 in Livestock and Fisheries; 548 in Food; 212 in Home Department except police; 122 in Forest; 19 in Industries and Commerce; 30 in Services, General Administration and Coordination Department; 104 in Labour; 38 in Mines and Minerals; 10 in Minority Affairs; 126 in Population Welfare; 190 in Social Welfare; four in Sports and Youth Affairs; 15 in Transport; 61 in Women Development; 138 in Katchi Abadies and Spatial Development Department, etcetera.
Earlier, under an agreed formula, at least 3,000 of the available jobs were supposed to be given to the candidates backed by the MQM, while the remaining positions were to stay with the ruling PPP, the sources said.
They claimed that the process for the recruitment of candidates for the vacant posts would start by the end of this year.
