A police official removing a tinted sheet from a vehicle on Kashmir Highway. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD JAVAID/EXPRESS
The Islamabad Police have removed tinted sheets from the windows of 127 cars in Islamabad during the past week.
On strict orders of the interior minister, the police stopped an average of 18 cars per day at police pickets around the capital for using tinted sheets without permits from August 12 to 18.
The use of tinted sheets in Islamabad is illegal except in cases where the driver has acquired a permit from the Interior Ministry for medical reasons.
The police have upped security at checkposts around the capital since the Eid holidays.
The scrutiny of vehicles was further beefed up after the August 15 incident wherein a gunman managed to bring weapons to Jinnah Avenue and caused a five-hour standoff with the police.
Over half of the tinted sheets were peeled off from Thursday onwards, with 27 cars stopped on Saturday alone.
The drivers of these cars were fined by the police, according to a police spokesman said.
The police have also impounded 358 motorcycles and 83 cars during the week in a crackdown against vehicles being driven without licences and proper registration documents.
Around 80 suspects were arrested during routine search operations in different parts of capital over the seven-day period.
There was a spike in the number of people arrested on the eve of Independence Day when 32 people were rounded up in the capital.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 20th, 2013.
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After the 5 hours standoff in Islamabad, the Police have now become vigilant, though it is the duty of Police to always remain vigilant, but unfortunately, Police only awake from the fast sleep after some thing big had already happened in the city.
Had the Police been vigilant on the day of standoff, the world would not have witnessed the entire episode of Sikandar alongwith his wife and children.
In addition to peeling the tinted glass of the vehicles and checking documentations, the Police should also stop all sort of vehicles to check if some one is carrying the fire arms or bombs.