Charity distributors should inform police for crowd control: Memon

Reacting to the tragic deaths of 12 people including women and children during a stampede to grab charity, Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that organisers of such events should inform police and administration beforehand for crowd control.

Sharjeel Memon said the management of the factory in SITE area where the charity was being distributed had not informed the police or administration about their plan.

He said that an FIR has been registered against the factory owners and seven people responsible for the incident have been arrested.

The provincial minister said that everyone wants to do charity in the blessed month of Ramazan.

He appealed to philanthropists and non-government organisations to intimate the district administration and police while arranging such charity activities so that they can be provided with adequate security.

He said that during the distribution of flour across Pakistan, sad incidents occurred in Punjab, keeping this in mind, the Sindh government decided to transfer the funds for the purchase of flour through the Benazir Income Support Programme to the deserving families so as to stop such tragedies.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1^st, 2023.