Karachi unrest case: SC orders police to take Taliban infiltration seriously

Interim order directs IG Sindh to arrest and present in court all suspects released on parole.

KARACHI: In its interim order on implementation of recommendations on the Karachi unrest case verdict given last year, the Supreme Court ordered the police and law enforcement agencies to take seriously the presence of Taliban in the city, Express News reported on Saturday.

The full bench of the Supreme Court was hearing the case pertaining to the implementation of the court’s orders in the verdict given last year after it took suo motu notice of violence and unrest in the province.

The case was being heard in the Supreme Court’s Karachi Registry.

The eight-page long interim order on the two-week long case also ordered for action and initiation of operations against the illegal immigrants in the province.

The court also ordered IG Sindh to round up all suspects released on parole and to present them in court, and directed for police recruitment to be made transparent.

Earlier, IG Sindh had presented a report on 7,000 Taliban infiltrating Karachi after the court had ordered for it.