Not only in the offices of private sector but thin attendance was also observed in state-run-offices located in Sindh Secretariat's all buildings due to tension which gripped Karachi after MQM activist was shot dead in PIB Colony on Tuesday.
Business Recorder has observed that a large number of officers, employees of Sindh government workings in various offices located in buildings of Sindh Secretariat were absent. Lower-grade employees of Sindh Secretariat use to come to their offices on local transport while a large number of officers and employees have four-wheel vehicles and motor bikes for this purpose.
However, local transport was disappeared from the roads of the metropolis while all petrol and CNG stations were also remained closed, that's why a large number of officers, employees were not able to attend their offices. When this scribe visited provincial government's offices situated at Sindh Secretariat (Tugluq House), very short attendance of officers, employees was witnessed. The offices of Secretaries Home, Planning and Development (P&D), Agriculture, Education, Irrigation, Sports, Coal and Energy, Labour, Excise and Taxation and Local Government are situated at different floors of Tugluq House.
Similarly, official work remained halted in the seven-story building of new Sindh Secretariat where offices of many ministers including senior minister for Education, Works and Services, Food, Women Development, Irrigation and Finance are situated. Sindh Chief Secretary's office is also part of that (New Sindh Secretariat) building which is located at the first floor with strict security measures.
Another building of Sindh Secretariat well known as KDA building, is located near by the RTO building, where offices of Anti Corruption Establishment, Zakat and Ushr, Population Welfare, Social Welfare, Culture, Housing, Inter Provincial Co-ordination and other departments are situated. Similarly, thin attendance was also observed in the Sindh Government Barracks where the offices of Information, Power, Labour, Finance, Health, Forest, Zakat and Ushr, Excise and Taxation, Home and others are established.