Sindh Home Minister Abdul Rauf Siddiqui has announced to establish a high powered committee headed by Chairman Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (Kati), Audul Haseeb Khan, on law and order in Korangi industrial area. Presiding over a meeting of the Kati on Wednesday, the minister announced that the committee would include DTO, all area SHOs and representative of industrial and business community.
The minister emphasised the committee members for taking effective measures to improve law and order and deal with traffic problems and other related issues of the area.
He said that now the committee chief would be responsible to meet any deteriorating law and order situation in the area.
The minister also announced to establish similar committees in all industrial areas of the province, which would function under the supervision of the provincial committee on the law and order.
Addressing members of the Kati, Siddiqui said that the present government had taken several measures to improve law and order situation in the province and this strategy was the part of the same steps to gain positive results. The minister claimed that the graph of crime rates was coming down considerably and said only few incidents were being reported in the city.
Referring to recent wave of incidents, including suicide bomb attack at Gulshan-e-Iqbal imambargah and killing of Jamat-e-Islami leader Aslam Mujahid, he called it a conspiracy against the people of this province and to defame the name of Pakistan abroad.
He said that for the first time one of the attackers of imambargah had been arrested and two other were killed by timely action by police personnel. Regarding the killing of Aslam Mujahid, he said that the investigation was in advance stage and hopefully culprits would soon be apprehended.
He said that the government had announced Rs 2.5 million as head money to reach the real culprits and ordered judicial inquiry in the case.
The minister urged the industrial and business community to come forward and provide mobiles, and motorcycles to increase police patrolling in the city.
He said that the government was facing financial crunch and without the help of business community this mobility of police could not be made possible. The minister also pointed out that there were several peoples in jail, who had completed their sentence but were unable to pay their penalty, ranges from Rs 5,000 to Rs 100,000.
Welcoming the guests, Chairman Kati Audul Haseeb Khan said that the law and order condition was improving after dedicated measures adopted by the present government.
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