Kako Ram, an elder of the area’s Hindu community, Ashok Kumar, member of a union of Ghotki’s Lady’s Market, former MNA Asar Das and others complained to the DIG about the increasing number of crimes in the district. A Hindu trader was reportedly stabbed by bandits a day earlier, while a Hindu goldsmith in Mirpur Mathelo was recently robbed gold worth Rs4 million. The police, however, had failed to arrest the culprits. People also registered their disapproval over the job performance of senior police officials in Yaroo Lund, Sarhad and other areas.
After hearing the complaints, Shaikh suspended Ghotki SHO Allah Wadhayo Pitafi and Raunti SHO Abdullah Awan.
Meanwhile, Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party leader Jam Fatah Samejo, Ghotki Engineers and Graduates Association president Mohammad Moosa Khoso, Sindh Hari Committee president Comrade Mandhal Shar and others criticised the police for using excessive force to disperse employees of multi-national companies when they protested against unfair wages.
Human Rights Forum Ghotki chairman Shahnawaz Waseer informed Shaikh that eight people, including Abdul Qayoom Ogahi and Shabbir Qamberani, were kidnapped from Ghotki district, but the police was not doing anything to recover them. They also said that whereabouts of a Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz leader, Zakir Bozdar, who was arrested two months ago, were not known. Shaikh informed the people that Bozdar was in the custody of the intelligence branch, but ordered an inquiry to be conducted to ascertain the leader’s location.
More than a hundred policemen were in attendance at the event, and there were reports that they tried to stop people from coming to the katcheri.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 19th, 2012.
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