The Sindh government has committed to follow the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications’ Cloud First Policy (MoITT).

According to MoITT sources, this is the first time the Sindh government has consented to the federal government’s strategy, which has already received approval from other provinces.

Representatives of the Sindh government expressed qualms about the strategy during a meeting held in the ministry in February this year, saying they would examine it with their province administration. All other provinces’ representatives were in favour of adopting the Cloud First Policy at the same meeting.

According to insiders, the Sindh government has not only decided to accept the policy, but has also begun the process of putting it into effect. Sindh’s government has created a tentative framework for implementing the Cloud First Policy and has given it to the Law Department for review.

Sindh Government is likely to approve this framework after examination by the law department. This framework establishes which responsibilities are the provinces’ duty in the Cloud First Policy, as well as how those activities will be carried out by the provincial government.

According to MoITT sources, other provinces are working on a framework to execute the Cloud First Policy within their respective borders, in addition to Sindh. The implementation of cloud policy will speed up if the province governments approve these frameworks. Provincial governments will set up a cloud acquisition office to implement the policy, similar to the cloud office in the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication.

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The Sindh government has instructed the country’s top security agencies to take action against those propagating anti-state propaganda on social media and ‘brainwashing’ children against the state and its institutions.

While presiding over the 27th Apex Committee meeting, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah made the decision. The conference was also attended by Lt-Gen Muhammad Saeed, DG Rangers Major General Iftikhar Chaudhry, provincial ministers, police chiefs, heads of intelligence agencies, and other authorities.

The administration urged the agencies to look into people promoting anti-government propaganda on social media. Also, as saw at Karachi University, to incite them to murder innocent people. The government also instructed the agencies to employ cutting-edge technologies to combat anti-state and anti-social forces on social media.

In discussions with the participants, the chief minister resolved to strengthen intelligence networks and intelligence sharing in order to conduct operations against terrorists. The assembly also criticised the recent explosion in the Saddar neighbourhood and called for an investigation.

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Government of Sindh is taking some vital steps to save the people from being the victim of mobile snatching or stealing. A meeting was held under chairmanship of the IG of Sindh Allah Dino. The officials present at the meeting have put forward an idea to launch a software to stop this increasing crime.

The meeting aimed to guide officials about steps been taken to control and finish street crimes.

Along with IG Sindh, AIG  Mushtaq Maher, DIG Sultan Ali Khawaja, and Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Chief Zubair Habib and many more officials were present in the meeting.

A plan was proposed to launch a software that will help in easy recovery of snatched or stolen phones.

The software will be such that it will register IMEI number along with sim card number. The best part about this is that this works with all sort of mobile phones.

If a phone is lost and user will  ask to block the sim card than with the help of software through IMEI number the mobile phone will be blocked and it will become useless for anyone.

IG Sindh has guided the stake holders ti complete the process of development of software really soon. He asked them to put it forward for approval as soon as possible so that maximum benefit can be gained.

Your  phones are secure in Sindh now because no one wants dummy phones.

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