Sindh police allowed to avail Rangers, army’s help

The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights has recommended that the Rangers and army personnel help the Sindh police in maintaining the law and order in those tribal regions of the province where lawlessness is on the rise.

The standing committee, headed Chairman Senator Waleed Iqbal, met at the Parliament House. The meeting was also attended by Senators Humayun Mohmand and Mehr Taj Roghani.

The meeting discussed the murder of Prof Ajmal Sawand in Sindh’s Kandhkot district. The Sindh police officials apprised the committee that the murder took place over an old enmity between the Sawand and Sundrani tribes.

The police officials said that operations were carried out on July 16 and 17 but the criminals used sophisticated weapons, including rocket launchers, against them.

Senator Iqbal expressed sorrow that an innocent professor was killed only because his tribe had an enmity with another tribe. He added that instead of the arrest of the murderer, there were more murders.

Senator Iqbal asked the officials where the police and the state stood. The officials replied that if the army and the Rangers’ help was taken, the situation could be controlled.

On that the committee recommended the police to take the support of the army and the Rangers.

Senator Mohmand said that the government should provide modern weapons to the police so that they could fight against the criminals.