Although the provincial government has beefed up security around Sindh Assembly building as a security measure, but it has created problems for the Sindh government employees. During a brief visit of the site, it was observed that the provincial government has blocked all roads leading towards Sindh Assembly by installing containers.
The installation of containers on the roads also blocked the entry and exit points of Sindh Secretariat, which had created more problems for employees and visitors.
The roads were completely blocked for every type of vehicular traffic and the employees were advised for using alternate entrance points. Due to blockage of the roads, the main entrances of New Sindh Secretariat, Pakistan Secretariat and Regional Tax Office (RTO) were also closed for vehicular traffic. The visitors were asked to park their vehicles in nearly situated narrow streets.
Taking advantage of the situation, some people encroached illegal parking along streets near Sindh Assembly building and started charging money from visitors. Interestingly, the provincial government neither communicate this message with the provincial government departments nor it issued any circular in this regard. Even the police jawans, who were deployed to keep check on public movement, were answerless to the general public about this abrupt change. The employees of Sindh Secretariat have shown their concerns about this uninformed change.
Further, the provincial government has also banned entrance of vehicles with government number plates and issued gate passes for entry from alternate entry gates. The government officers, who joined the office on Tuesday after Eidul Azha, when reached Sindh Secretariat for attending the office, they were not allowed to park vehicles inside building and asked to hire private parking.
Expressing anger over uninformed change, an official of Finance Department, who came to Home Secretary for departmental meeting, said he was stopped outside the entrance of New Sindh Secretariat due to non-possession of valid entry pass. When this scribe approached Arif Rajput Home Secretary Sindh for comments, he said, "I am not here for giving interview to you." "We have received security threats and decided to tighten the security," he added.