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With violence escalating dramatically in the city, the chief minister has vowed to spend his nights without any sleep until peace and order was restored in the metropolis.
At a meeting held on Tuesday night, Qaim Ali Shah said he would visit police stations and troubled areas at night to personally assess the security situation.
“Only holding meetings on the law and order situation is insufficient; police and Rangers must show results as they have been granted full powers to restore peace in the city,” he remarked. “Negligence will not be tolerated,” he warned the law enforcement agencies,
“Negligent and absent policemen will be taken to task during my visits.”
The provincial chief executive said he had paid surprise visits to various areas of the city and observed that there were no security steps visible in Sohrab Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, the areas near Mazar-e-Quaid and on MA Jinnah Road.
Shah also informed the participants of the meeting that he traveled from the city to Khairpur via National Highway, but no effective security measures were to be seen along the way. He said he had seen police pickets at some places, but there were no policemen there.
The provincial chief executive directed the law enforcement agencies to take strict action the elements spreading hatred so that peace, brotherhood and harmony could be maintained during Muharram. “The crime rate must be curbed and immediate results should be visible.”
He directed police and Rangers to increase patrolling in the city, particularly in the troubled areas.
The roots
Tracing the roots of the unrest in the city, Shah, who is also the in-charge of the home department, said owing to the myopic policies of the successive past regimes, the seeds of sectarian and political polarisation were sown in the country’s trading and commercial centre and now they had turned into a tree. He observed that violence repeatedly kept gripping the city.
The chief minister said target killers, terrorists and other criminals should be taken to task and their conviction by courts should be ensured by providing enough evidence to the prosecution.
Earlier, the additional home chief secretary, the IGP and the Rangers DG gave a detailed briefing about the volatile security situation of the city to the chief minister.
The provincial information minister, the chief secretary and the city commissioner also attended the meeting.
With violence escalating dramatically in the city, the chief minister has vowed to spend his nights without any sleep until peace and order was restored in the metropolis.
At a meeting held on Tuesday night, Qaim Ali Shah said he would visit police stations and troubled areas at night to personally assess the security situation.
“Only holding meetings on the law and order situation is insufficient; police and Rangers must show results as they have been granted full powers to restore peace in the city,” he remarked. “Negligence will not be tolerated,” he warned the law enforcement agencies,
“Negligent and absent policemen will be taken to task during my visits.”
The provincial chief executive said he had paid surprise visits to various areas of the city and observed that there were no security steps visible in Sohrab Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, the areas near Mazar-e-Quaid and on MA Jinnah Road.
Shah also informed the participants of the meeting that he traveled from the city to Khairpur via National Highway, but no effective security measures were to be seen along the way. He said he had seen police pickets at some places, but there were no policemen there.
The provincial chief executive directed the law enforcement agencies to take strict action the elements spreading hatred so that peace, brotherhood and harmony could be maintained during Muharram. “The crime rate must be curbed and immediate results should be visible.”
He directed police and Rangers to increase patrolling in the city, particularly in the troubled areas.
The roots
Tracing the roots of the unrest in the city, Shah, who is also the in-charge of the home department, said owing to the myopic policies of the successive past regimes, the seeds of sectarian and political polarisation were sown in the country’s trading and commercial centre and now they had turned into a tree. He observed that violence repeatedly kept gripping the city.
The chief minister said target killers, terrorists and other criminals should be taken to task and their conviction by courts should be ensured by providing enough evidence to the prosecution.
Earlier, the additional home chief secretary, the IGP and the Rangers DG gave a detailed briefing about the volatile security situation of the city to the chief minister.
The provincial information minister, the chief secretary and the city commissioner also attended the meeting.
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