Government of Sindh

Government of Sindh
	Provincial Government Seal
	Provincial Government Flag
Seat of government	Karachi
Legislature
Assembly	Sindh Assembly;
Speaker	Awais Qadir Shah
Members	168
Executive
Governor	Kamran Tessori
Chief Secretary	Asif Hyder Shah
Chief Minister	Murad Ali Shah
Judiciary
High Court	Sindh High Court
Chief justice of High Court	Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi
Website	www.sindh.gov.pk

The Government of Sindh (Sindhi: حڪومت سنڌ) (Urdu: حکومتِ سندھ) is the provincial government of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Its powers and structure are set out in the provisions of the 1973 Constitution, in which 30 Districts of 7 Divisions under its authority and jurisdiction.

The province's executive head and head of the government is the Chief Secretary Sindh. All officers and cabinet members report to the Chief Secretary. The Chief Secretary is an appointed official by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The Chief Secretary of Sindh is usually a Grade 22 officer, belonging to the Pakistan Administrative Service.

Although the Governor is the head of the province on paper, it is largely a ceremonial position; and the main powers lie with the Chief Minister of Sindh and Chief Secretary of Sindh.

The province is governed by a unicameral legislature with the head of government known as the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister, invariably a leader of a political party represented in the Assembly, selects members of the provincial Cabinet.

The terms Government of Sindh or Sindh Government are often used in official documents. The seat of Government is in Karachi, thus serving as the capital of the province.

Executive

The Chief Secretary Sindh, as head of the provincial bureaucracy, is the boss of the province. The provincial Chief Secretary of Grade-22 is equivalent in rank to a Federal Secretary, is appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Under him comes the entire Government of Sindh.

Currently, there are only 5 Grade-21 Officers in the province.

Grade-21 Officers Serving in Sindh^[5]
No.	Name of Officer	Posting	Service
1.	Mr. Muhammad Iqbal Memon	Commissioner Karachi Division	Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS)
2.	Baqaullah Unar	ACS/Senior Member Board of Revenue Sindh	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)
3.	Mr. Muhammad Nawaz Shaikh	Chairman Enquiries & Anti-Corruption Establishment	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)
4.	Makhdoom Shakeel-uz-Zaman	Chairman Chief Minister’s Inspection, Enquiries & Implementation Team	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)
5.	Abdul Rasheed Solangi	Secretary Information Department	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)
6.	Abdul Rahim Soomro	Secretary Culture, Tourism, Antiquities & Archives Department	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)
7.	Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah	Member, Sindh Board of Revenue	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)
8.	Saeed Ahmed Awan	Secretary Public Health Engineering & Rural Development department	Provincial Civil Service (ex-PCS)

Governance

At the Ministerial level, each department is headed by a Provincial Secretary. The Secretary is in-charge of all workings of their department, and in most cases are the Principal Accounting Officers of their department. Provincial Secretaries are usually Grade-20 Officers. There may also be Grade-21 Secretaries, in cases where the post has not been upgraded by the Chief Minister to that of an Additional Chief Secretary.

Apart from the Ministerial level, the Government of Sindh exercises its powers and function through Divisions and Districts. The Commissioners are in-charge of Divisions while Deputy Commissioners are in-charge of Districts. Commissioners report directly to the Chief Secretary are responsibly for everything in their Divisions. There are 6 Divisions, namely; Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, and Shaheed Benazirbad. Commissioners are usually Officers of the rank of Grade-20 while the Commissioner Karachi Division is of the Grade-21 rank, as Karachi Division is the most important Division in all of Pakistan.

Top-Personnel


Top Executive Offices	Name's of Officials	Service/Party	Rank
Chief Minister	Murad Ali Shah	Pakistan Peoples Party	22
Chief Secretary	Asif Hyder Shah	PAS	BS-22
Chairman Planning and Development Board	Shakeel Ahmed Mangnejo	PAS	BS-21
Chairman Enquiries & Anti-Courrption Establishment	Usman Ghani Siddique	PSS	BS-21
Minister of Universities and Board	Muhammad Ali Khan Malkani	Pakistan Peoples Party
Commissioner Karachi Division	Muhammad Saleem Rajput	PAS	BS-21
Secretary Finance Department	Kazim Hussain Jatoi	PSS	BS-20

Departments

Ministry Level

Ministry level departments are usually headed by a Secretary who reports to the Chief Secretary and Chief Minister. The number of ministers in the cabinet is fixed, so a single minister can have multiple portfolios.^[6]

Planning & Development Board
- Planning & Development Department
Services, General Administration, Coordination Department
- Services Wing
- General Administration Wing
- Inter Provincial Coordination Wing
- I&C Wing
- Training Management & Research Management Wing
Board of Revenue
Enquiries & Anti-Corruption Establishment
Local Government, Housing & Town Planning Department
Home Department
Chief Minister's Inspection, Enquiries & Implementation Team
Universities and Boards Department
Food Department
Finance Department
Health Department