Down Memory Lane: Waseem Beater - ‘most influential’ policeman

Waseem joined the police in the 1990s as a constable but was dismissed after the court was told he ran a gambling den.

KARACHI:

Muhammad Waseem, alias Waseem Beater, joined the police force in the 1990s as a constable but was dismissed from service after the apex court was informed in January this year that the city police was being controlled and run by a gambler.

The court was told that all postings and promotions in the city were made on his recommendations. The revelations were made during the hearing of a petition filed by Senator Haji Adeel asking for a review of the progress on the judgment of the Karachi law and order suo motu case.

At the time, Sindh IGP Fayyaz Leghari, chief secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas and additional chief secretary Wasim Ahmed pleaded ignorance but DIG Sanaullah Abbasi and Bashir Memon admitted before the bench, in the presence of their seniors, that Waseem, a junior police officer, did, in fact, run a ‘gambling den’ in Karachi and possessed “great influence in the police department”.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 30^th, 2013.