Pakistan, Jan. 26 -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that he has been elected to the post by the provincial legislature and is therefore not answerable to anyone except the Sindh Assembly, not even to the prime minister.

He made these remarks while addressing the inauguration ceremony of the Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility and Dow Institute of Life Sciences at the Ojha campus of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in Karachi.

"According to the constitution, I am answerable to the Sindh Provincial Assembly and to no one else, not [even] to the prime minister," said the chief minister, adding that "the Sindh Provincial Assembly elected me and I am answerable to them and I will answer them."

The chief...