KARACHI: The Sindh Information Department (SID) has posted low-grade employees including a stenographer and a junior translator as the public relation officers (PROs) to the Sindh ministers, Daily Times has learnt. The SID is responsible to provide public relations officers (PROs) to provincial minister, adviser, special assistants and coordinators to ensure their maximum coverage in the electronic and print media. Besides, these PROs bridgethe gap between the government functionaries and media persons. According to sources, there are some 18 district information officers, who are supposed to join their duties in the districts. However, the said officials have been given the lucrative charge at the information headquarters. “There is no check and balance in appointment of information officers as PROs to the ministers and advisers,” the sources said. According to official documents available with Daily Times, an information officer namely S M H Naqvi has been made deputy director (headquarter) while he is also the PRO to Minister for Prisons, Mines and Minerals Development, Manzoor Hussain Wassan, Adviser to Chief Minister for Law, Abdul Wahab. An information officer Ghulam Sarwar Samejo has been made PRO to Minister for Revenue, Makhdoom JameelUz Zaman, Sindh Minister for Commerce and Industries, Muhammad Ali Malkani, Sindh Minister for Agriculture, Ali Nawaz Khan Mahar, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Environment, Dr Sikandar Ali Mendhro. Information Officer Muhammad Imran made PRO to Gyanchand Essarani, Minister for Excise and Taxation, Forests and Wildlife, Minorities Affairs while Information Officer Moinuddin made PRO to Minister for Health, Jam Mahtab Hussain Dahar. Information officer Syed Saad Ali made PRO to Coordinator to Chief Minister Sindh on Human Rights, Nadia Gabol. Information Officer Aleemuddin Khan made PRO to Special Assistant to Chief Minister for Culture, Sharmila Farooqui. Moreover, Information Officer Suhail Jokhio has been deputed at IG Office, Information Officer Murtaza Ali Jhakhar made PRO to Adviser to CM for Auqaf Dr Qayyum Soomro, Information Officer Sabir Kakamade made PRO to Advisor to Chief Minister on Information and Archives, Information Officer Saeed Memon as PRO CM House, Umer Hashmi, information officer at CM House, Shoaib Jamali, information officer (contract) at Press Information Section, Ahmed Ali, information officer (contract) Minister for Zakat and Ushr, Hasan Khanzada, information officer (contract) at Commissioner Karachi Office and Sikandar Malik, information officer (contract) at Sports and IT Department. The Information Department has posted a junior translator of BPS-6, Imran Sangi, as PRO to Sindh Minister for Katchi Abadis, Tariq Masood Arain and Usama Mahmood, a stenographer of BPS-6 as PRO to Adviser to Chief Minister on Labour and Human Resources, Asghar Junejo. Daily Times repeatedly tried to contact Secretary Information and Archives, Zahid Memon. However, his cell phone remained unattended.