Law enforcers to set up pickets in sensitive areas
Agencies to get mobile SIM card locators to control crime.
KARACHI:
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has reiterated that the government will improve law and order in Karachi and law-enforcing agencies will set up pickets in sensitive areas where extortion cases are reported regularly.
He was speaking to industrialists at the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on Monday.
Malik told the audience that law-enforcing agencies would get mobile SIM card locators soon to control the increasing criminal activities with the help of snatched cellphones and unregistered SIM cards.
He said the federal and Sindh governments would each hire 5,000 policemen for the city to overcome the acute shortage of policemen in the financial hub of the country.
The industrialists complained that the government was not taking the law and order situation seriously. There was widespread sense of insecurity among the businessmen, who were facing threats of extortion and kidnapping for ransom.
Accepting one of the top demands of the businessmen, Malik gave directives for opening NADRA and passport counters at the KCCI office for registering businessmen who wanted weapon licences. Speaking on the occasion, former KCCI president Siraj Kassam Teli asked Malik to honour past commitments and improve law and order in the city.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2012.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has reiterated that the government will improve law and order in Karachi and law-enforcing agencies will set up pickets in sensitive areas where extortion cases are reported regularly.
He was speaking to industrialists at the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) on Monday.
Malik told the audience that law-enforcing agencies would get mobile SIM card locators soon to control the increasing criminal activities with the help of snatched cellphones and unregistered SIM cards.
He said the federal and Sindh governments would each hire 5,000 policemen for the city to overcome the acute shortage of policemen in the financial hub of the country.
The industrialists complained that the government was not taking the law and order situation seriously. There was widespread sense of insecurity among the businessmen, who were facing threats of extortion and kidnapping for ransom.
Accepting one of the top demands of the businessmen, Malik gave directives for opening NADRA and passport counters at the KCCI office for registering businessmen who wanted weapon licences. Speaking on the occasion, former KCCI president Siraj Kassam Teli asked Malik to honour past commitments and improve law and order in the city.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 20th, 2012.