Additional Inspector General Shahid Hayat Khan. PHOTO: PPI
KARACHI: A police report submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday revealed that terrorist activities have increased in Karachi since security forces started the targeted operation in the city.
Additional Inspector General (AIG) Shahid Hayat Khan submitted this report during the Karachi law and order case hearing.
According to the document, criminal elements targeted during the operation were retaliating to police action and around 94 policemen were killed since September 2013 -- the month the operation began.
The statistics revealed that January was the deadliest month for the police force as 25 officers were killed -- the highest in 12 months. Karachi's super cop Chaudhry Aslam was killed in the same month along with a few of his officers.
The numbers in the report showed that 601 suspects were arrested out of which 213 were wanted; 153 were arrested in target killing cases and 71 were arrested in kidnapping for ransom cases.
Operation successes
Highlighting the success of the targeted operation, the report stated that incidents of target killing were reduced by 56% while murders and street crimes were reduced by 30%.
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Though there has been a sharp decrease in the number of murders before and after the operation started, there has been a slight increase in the killings from the beginning of the operation till February.
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The data provided in the report stated that extortion activities were on the rise. The AIG, however, said the situation will soon be brought under control.
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@Usman786. Tell me how many criminal activities have you reported to the authorities? How about punishing you for living in Karachi (or somewhere else in Pakistan) for whatever goes wrong in your locality? Most of the common people cannot raise their voices against these elements. Whistleblowers are not protected in Pakistan, even if they occupy high positions in the government, judiciary or law enforcement .. let alone a common citizen.
The biggest mafia is the police itself...
I lived near the super cop house when it blew up. He got his house fixed at government expense. We had to pay ourselves.
Then one wonders, how could this supercop afford a 1000 sq.yard mansion in defence 8?
Then one also wonders where is all that bhatta money going? To the top...
All these mafia has protection of the local police SHO and higherups. So how can one get protection from the law enforcement agencies?
Print this ET!!!!
for months operation is going but still target killings,extortion has not stopped,because you have mind set to target one particular group only ...in the reports no mention of extra-judicial killing