Crime against women, children intolerable: CM Murad

Sets up crime database to make police accountable

KARACHI:

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presiding over a meeting on law and order has categorically told the provincial police that he would not tolerate crime against women, children, minorities and cases of kidnapping for ransom and drug trafficking.

"This should be considered as guiding principles and be focused accordingly - however, I am establishing a separate unit to monitor crime situations at CM House, therefore crime rate must be seen coming down in all the police zones and regions of the province."

The CM taking serious notice of the incident took place in Tando Mohammad with the Special Assistant of the Prime Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim directed Hyderabad DIG to submit a detailed inquiry report. He added that such incidents were undemocratic and should not be allowed to happen.

IGP Maher briefing the chief minister said that from January 1 to August 5, 2021 1,035 cases of murder, 103 extortion and 118 cases of kidnapping for ransom were reported. IG said that 10,172 incidents of crime against persons, 31,107 property, 16,745 miscellaneous, 17,320 local and special law, 535 fatal and non-fatal and 24 of blasphemy cases were reported during the said period.

The IGP sharing monthly crime report of August 2021 with the chief minister disclosed that four cases of crimes against minorities were reported in the province.

Similarly, 73 cases of offence against women were reported, of them 24 in East, 18 in South and five in other zones of Karachi, 10 in Hyderabad, six each in Sukkur and Larkana and three in Shaheed Benazirabad and one in Mirpurkhas regions.

The chief minister directed the IGP to start a vigorous and targeted operation against the drug mafia from Saturday and keep him sending day-to-day reports. He said that the culprits involved in crime against children, women and minorities must be brought to book. He said he would be reviewing law and order twice or thrice in a month and would take action accordingly.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 14^th, 2021.