Interior Minister Chuadhry Nisar Ali Khan. PHOTO: FILE
The tour comes after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif instructed him to look into the deteriorating law and order situation of the metropolis.
Nisar will be accompanied by other interior ministry officials and will be briefed by security forces about the situation in the city.
Express News reported that Nisar will assure Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah of the centre’s absolute support in tackling the city’s problem.
The interior minister had earlier said that he would not disappoint the people of Karachi if entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the metropolitan city which has become a cauldron of sectarian, ethnic, political and militant violence.
Violence
There was no respite from killings in the city during the first six months of the year 2013, as 1,728 casualties were reported in different incidents, according to a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report.
Based on data from the past six months, the HRCP report declares June as the deadliest month of the year so far with 313 people killed. The highest number of political killings, which is 50, also took place in this month.
There has been an alarming increase in the crime rate as compared to the six-monthly figures of 2012, when over 1,200 people died. In 2011, the count was even lesser with 1,110 such tragedies.
Between January and June this year, most of the people that have been killed, which is 545, were those with no political affiliations, but were gunned down under the guise of target killings. On the other hand, out of the 174 activists killed, the highest number of workers, which is 104, belonged to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
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@SHR3WD: Please do not look with one eye shut. Open your thoughts to what has and is going on in the city of Karachi. Salams
If this is going to be a 'cosmetic hello and hi' visit combined by 'powder puff' instructions to fight terrorists, then let us say, NO THANK YOU. Salams
@despicable me: Provide MQM funds? $10 billion was enough?
Does Ch Nisar has power to question Rana Sanaullah? if not there is not going to be peace in Karachi as the snakes Rana has in Southern Punjab will always come to Karachi and kill innocent people and then go back to rest in Punjab. Only solution is to have a local based police system, hire the locals to police their own precincts, and punish according to Sharia all terrorist. If people know that the guilty would be punished, they would come forward and be a witness.
@despicable me: Sure. In your dreams.
arrest zulfiqar mirza,carry out a heavy operation against PAC.provide MQM with funds and then see peace will be widespread in karachi.
What is the rush? I mean the PM and his Secratary for Home Affairs (because he appears to be unable doing anything without instructions from his Bossman!) could have waited a little longer, may be another couple of foreign trips would provide better security planning, and while they plan we could get killed or survive depending on time and place we happend to be, or the sect we belong or the ethnic orgin or may be our political loyalty.
Most incompetent interior minister in Pakistan' s history. He still thinks he is the opposition leader. He's spending most of his energies on visits and on Afia Siddiqqi the terrorist.
Impose Governor rule for 90 days under a new Governor and clean up Karachi of illegal wepons
Nothing short of a full-fledged army-backed operation against all criminals would do. De-weaponize. Book and punish all criminals, period. If you don't you could be accused of criminal negligence.
Why 22nd ? why not now.. like right now ? What on earth is more important than people dying on the streets of Karachi.. Sure every one is unsafe in the country but apart from random acts of terror with bomb explosions, attacks on police, people at my city Peshawar can at least roam freely without the fear of being fired upon by mafia and criminals. Karachi has been made like a mafia land by the politicians and the so called "reconciliation". Sometimes I feel like Karachi and everyone in Sindh deserve even the worse for not learning and putting same old crap back in assemblies, but then again, there is a minority which is sensible and deserve some peace. Nisar, fix it now, go there right now and don't label yourself being another Rehman Malik.
i think PMLN doesnt want to go hard with sindh government till presidential election. once the presidential election is over, governor might change and PMLN will become a direct player in sindh
Dear Ch. Nisar, Put aside Qaim Ali Shah, he is busy in attending iftar parties. He cud'nt resolve it in five years, would he do it now. Do it by yourself