31 illegal police pickets identified in Karachi

East Zone DIG orders for all to be razed, sends officers back to police stations

KARACHI: Around 31 illegal police check posts and pickets were identified in East Zone. East DIG Amir Farooqi issued directives on Tuesday for all unauthorised police check posts to be razed. He directed the police officials deployed there to return to their respective police stations. The areas where these illegal structures had been set-up can be monitored through patrolling, he said.

The unauthorised check posts include Ghulam Rasool Shaheed Dalmia check post, Shaheed Mehar Ali police post in Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Raja Arshad Shaheed police post which fall in the jurisdiction of Aziz Bhatti Police Station. Darul Sehat Hospital check post, Ashraful Madaris check post, and Gulistan-e-Jauhar police chowki in Hussain Hazara Goth in the limits of Sharae Faisal Police Station, Liberty Chowk check post in the jurisdiction of Zaman Town Police Station, Qayumabad police post and Bilal Colony picket in the jurisdiction of Korangi Industrial Area Police Station, Khadi police post and R Area police post in the limits of Korangi Police Station, New Sabzi Mandi Chowk, Ahsanabad police post and Northern Bypass police post in the limits of SITE Super Highway Police Station, Al Asif Square police post in the limits of Sohrab Goth Police Station.



Besides, Abbas Town police post and Bhitai Abad police post in the limits of Sachal Police Station, Khuldabad police post in the jurisdiction of Shah Latif Town Police Station, Bhitai Colony police post and Fishery police post in the limits of Ibrahim Hyderi Police Station, Naseerabad police post in the jurisdiction of Bin Qasim Police Station, Afghan camp police post in the jurisdiction of Gulshan-e-Maymar Police Station, Kathore police post, Bahria Town police post and Gadap city police post in the limits of Gadap City Police Station, nine-kilometre police post in the jurisdiction of Steel Town Police Station, Rairhi Goth police post in the jurisdiction of Sukhan Police Station, Ayub Goth police post in the jurisdiction of Sohrab Goth Police Station and Darsano Chano police post in the jurisdiction of Memon Goth Police Station.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 2^nd, 2019.