Judicial commission orders civic bodies to sack Muslim sanitary staff

The water commission on water quality and drainage in Sindh on Friday ordered Karachi municipal authorities to sack all Muslim sanitation workers from service after being informed that they had been refusing the job assigned to them such as cleaning sewers.
FormerJustice Amir Hani Muslim, who heads the one-member commission, observed at the outset of the hearing that the city's central district was littered with garbage. He asked District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Central Chairman Rehan Hashmi how many of the district sweepers were Muslim.
When Hashmi revealed that nearly 200 of the sanitation workers were Muslims out of 1200, the judge asked whether those employees also clean gutters.
Before adjourning the hearing until April 5, the commission ordered the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board and the Cantonment Boards to ensure through their contractors and employees that "all the solid municipal waste is removed from the city starting from today".