Gilgit-Baltistan: Police to create database of criminals

G-B police is creating a database of those involved in various crimes, especially in creating sectarian rift.

GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan police is creating a database of those involved in various crimes, especially in creating sectarian rift, officials said on Thursday.

“The decision has been taken by top police officials in view of incessant target killings in Gilgit,” said a source in the police department.

He said that the data will be collected under a computerised process and will be used to trace hundreds of blind cases that have piled up over the past two decades. “Once the database is complete, chances are that all old cases will be reinvestigated,” he said.

A senior police official in Gilgit last week informed a court about this step after the court took a suo motu action against the killing of veteran politician Advocate Mir Nawaz. The court had asked the police to explain why it has failed to control crimes in Gilgit and arrest the killers of Mir Nawaz. The police complained of lack of manpower and shortage of modern facilities to counter the threat.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 25^th, 2011.