KARACHI: Sindh government has decided to suspend the registration of 2500non-governmental organisations (NGOs) out of 10,500.
The move is likely to be made following the failure of submission of annualaudit reports by the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and poorperformance in activities for the public welfare, sources said.
Muhammad Nawaz Shaikh, the secretary of Sindh social welfare department,said that only 4000 NGOs are working and not a single organisation hassubmitted its annual audit report. Shaikh warned that the provincialgovernment will take necessary action against the organisations.
He added that the provincial authorities will start suspending theregistration of NGOs from December. The secretary asked NGOs to improvetheir performance for the betterment of the Sindh locals. He announced thatstrict law will be introduced for the new NGOs by the Sindh government.
Earlier on October 7 last year, Interior Ministry had barred 18 InternationalNon-Governmental Organisationslink(INGOs)from working in Pakistan and ordered them to leave the country within 60days.
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The 18 banished INGOs comprise nine of the United States, three of theUnited Kingdom and two from Holland, in addition to one from Ireland,Denmark, Italy and Switzerland each.
According to details, the Ministry has granted 60 days to the citedorganizations to wind up their work and fly back to their countries.
The Ministry has allowed 141 NGOs to continue their activities whiledirecting 72 NGOs to complete their documentation.
