MQM-P concerned over rise in crime

The committee says that criminal elements had killed three citizens in firing a day earlier

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s Rabita Committee has expressed concern over the sudden increase in criminal activities in the city and blamed it on the incompetence of the city administration. According to a statement issued from the MQM-P’s head office in Bahadurabad, the Rabita Committee has said that the surge in street crimes has terrified citizens while the administration is playing the role of a silent observer. The committee further said that criminal elements had killed three citizens in firing a day earlier. Several citizens, including MQM’s MPA Ali Khurshid, were deprived of their mobile phones and other valuables in separate incidents of robbery and snatching.  

Published in The Express Tribune, August 3^rd, 2019.