Law and order: Businessmen review city’s situation
Police given more time to meet security-related demands.
KARACHI:
Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Saeed Shafiq has said that the chamber has kept close liaison with the government and is constantly monitoring progress on implementation of its demands for improving law and order situation in the city.
KCCI members held a meeting on Wednesday to review the city’s situation, as the deadline given to the government to provide security to the industrialists expired on Tuesday.
Shafiq said that on the insistence of the Sindh governor and chief minister, businessmen had decided to give time to the police department and the interior ministry for improving law and order situation.
KCCI had demanded setting up of police pickets, extra mobile surveillance, mobile phone trackers for the Sindh government and blocking of all wrongly issued SIMs, along with those Chinese mobile phones with same IMEI numbers.
The meeting was told that 54 pickets were already working and the number would increase to 100, which meant that 200 policemen would be posted in old city areas permanently.
Shafiq said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik had instructed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block all wrongly issued mobile SIMs within 15 days.
Furthermore, the federal government was also working with the agencies concerned for providing mobile trackers to the Sindh government.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 14th, 2011.
Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Saeed Shafiq has said that the chamber has kept close liaison with the government and is constantly monitoring progress on implementation of its demands for improving law and order situation in the city.
KCCI members held a meeting on Wednesday to review the city’s situation, as the deadline given to the government to provide security to the industrialists expired on Tuesday.
Shafiq said that on the insistence of the Sindh governor and chief minister, businessmen had decided to give time to the police department and the interior ministry for improving law and order situation.
KCCI had demanded setting up of police pickets, extra mobile surveillance, mobile phone trackers for the Sindh government and blocking of all wrongly issued SIMs, along with those Chinese mobile phones with same IMEI numbers.
The meeting was told that 54 pickets were already working and the number would increase to 100, which meant that 200 policemen would be posted in old city areas permanently.
Shafiq said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik had instructed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block all wrongly issued mobile SIMs within 15 days.
Furthermore, the federal government was also working with the agencies concerned for providing mobile trackers to the Sindh government.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 14th, 2011.