A chart on kidnapping for ransom cases from January 1, 2003 to February 28,2013. PHOTO: CPLC
KARACHI: Kidnapping for ransom cases in Karachi have broken a ten-year-record, Express News reported on Friday.
According to the Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) chief Ahmed Chinoy 166 were kidnapped this year.
To put things in context, the reported number of kidnappings in 2003 was 33.
According to the CPLC website, the total number of kidnapping for ransom cases over the last 10 years is 898.
Since 1990, the first time kidnapping cases exceeded the 100 mark was in 2010.
The month-wise breakdown of the reported cases in 2010 is: 14 in January, February, 4, March, 7, April, 9, May, 7, June, 14, July, 10, August, 16, September, 10 and October 12.
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As long as police dept is politicized....crime rate will never come down...today karachi resembles mob controlled city of Chicago in the 1970s.....but all political parties put their heads together, passed a very strict law that gave full power to FBI ( as police was also under the influence of these mob bosses ), to tap Mob`s bosses telephones, monitor their movements through CCTVs placed at vintage points, took pictures of Mob bosses movement etc;and under the same law made sure that all the records made against each Mob bosses were admissable in the court of law as evidence, so that when they are arrested, they can be indicted....today Chicago area has been cleared as most of the gangsters have been put behind bars for life and many became state witnesses and pardoned as reward for their cooperation.....all this was possible because there was a genuine political will to bring peace in the city of Chicago.....this is what we need in karachi too....only then peace will return,otherwise goodbye!!
Karachi should to be governed by its elected representatives as a city-state, the above graph clearly establishes the need
Karachi’s importance cannot be over emphasized. The deteriorating security situation affects the rest of the country. I hope to see the enemies of peace punished to the fullest extent of the law. I wish to see peace prevail throughout the city.
Ali Khan
The difference in kidnapping numbers between the graph and the article is because the graph shows the figures till Feb, 2013.
Shame on Rangers & Police, just making money pomoting terrorism securing extremist and arresting and harrasing common ppl
Democracy is the best revenge, which each democratically elected political party will take turn in extracting revenge from their people...Western styled democracy is not suitable in our country...has been proved beyond doubt.
And this data probably doesn't include most short term kidnappings. Im guessing actual figure is several times higher.
I don't get it. The graph in the picture shows only 32 kidnappings having taken place this year yet the written part of the article says 166. Can someone please explain?
What is common in 1990, 1997, 2010, 11 and 12??????? PPP Govt.....!