When security personnel posted at the gate did not allow police mobiles to enter, they were thrashed by the cops.
KARACHI: To improve law and order in Karachi, perhaps the most effective step would be to stop providing all those mobile police vans (each with 10 cops) to the Sindh government’s VVIPs. These policemen can then be used to patrol the streets of Karachi. The VVIPs should not object to this, since they don’t seem to pay any taxes. They can certainly hire (at their own expense) private security guards.
Recently, one such VVIP’s wife wanted three police mobile vans escorting her, to be allowed to enter the compound of our building complex, which is managed by the DHA. When the security personnel posted at the gate did not allow the police mobiles to enter, they were soundly thrashed by the cops, while the lady looked on with a smile on her face. The police mobiles forced their way into the compound, despite the large notice on the compound wall saying that “no armed security personnel are allowed to enter”. This, then, is the contempt which our VVIPs have for us ordinary mortals. It’s time we stood up and demanded that we should get what we pay for.
Shakir Lakhani
Published in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2013.
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