Staff Reporter
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and PTI Karachi Region President Khurrum Sher Zaman has asked Sindh Government where did the Provincial Finance Commission Award for the local governments of this province disappeared? In a statement issued on Saturday, Sher Zaman demanded of Chief Minister Sindh to inform the Sindh Assembly in the next sitting about the status of Provincial Finance Commission (PFC).
“I remind the Chief Minister that the Sindh Assembly on July 2, 2019 unanimously adopted a resolution proposed by PTI for the immediate formation of PFC. Since then, we have not heard a peep about it, why?” The PTI Karachi Region President slated the PPP-led Sindh for not issuing new PFC award to the Metropolitan Corporation, district councils, district municipal corporations, municipal committees, and town committees in the past 12 years. “The Sindh Government is violating its own local government law as clause 112 of the Sindh Local Government Act states that it is compulsory for the provincial government to issue the PFC award every four years and distribute financial share to all districts and local government agencies from provincial revenue as per the formula.
The last PFC award was issued during the Musharraf era in 2007. This is a joke, especially for a party that claims to be ‘vanguard of democracy’ in Pakistan.” Sher Zaman believes that the non-issuing of PFC award is adversely impacting the people of Karachi, as they must suffer poor livability conditions and dilapidated infrastructure. The time has come for Karachi to receive its fair share from provincial revenues.
