A safer tomorrow: Chief minister wants support of legal fraternity and civil society for operation
Syed Qaim Ali Shah also promises better compensation for slain enforcers to improve morale.
"No time limit has been fixed for the targeted operation and it will continue until the desired results are achieved," CM said. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
KARACHI:
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that the transfer of former Karachi additional IGP Shahid Hayat was made in compliance with the court's orders.
"No time limit has been fixed for the targeted operation and it will continue until the desired results are achieved," he said, while presiding over a law and order meeting at the CM House on Saturday.
During the meeting, a three-member committee - comprising home secretary Dr Niaz Abbasi, law secretary Mir Muhammad Shaikh and Sindh advocate-general Abdul Fatah Malik - was formed to coordinate and convince the judiciary to expedite the cases that have been filed during the targeted operation. Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that law enforcement agencies will now try to stop terrorism, but added that the end result of this fight depends on the legal system and whether the arrested criminals are convicted in the courts or not.
He also asked other stakeholders, individuals and organisations both, to do their share in order to make this operation successful.
Improving the police
Shah went on to stress that the Sindh government will not allow any interference in police operations and promised that police officers will be selected and posted only on merit.
He added that consultations to increase compensation for the heirs of law enforcers killed in the line of duty are in progress and felt that this will improve the morale of the forces.
As many as 10,000 more police personnel will be inducted in Sindh in the coming year, he claimed, while efforts are being made to institutionalise and sustain the best practices of the police.
He said that the police budget is also being increased for the next fiscal year of 2014-15.
Abbasi and Sindh IGP Iqbal Mehmood also gave briefings on the law and order situation. The home secretary informed the meeting that the National Database and Registration Authority has been approached to help resolve the issue of illegal immigrants in Karachi and the relevant authorities are also being approached to have illegal SIMs blocked.
He also revealed the preparation of a contingency plan to stop the construction of unauthorised seminaries.
Sindh Minister for Information Sharjeel Memon, Sindh DG Rangers Rizwan Akhtar and Karachi additional IGP Ghulam Qadir Thebo also attended the meeting along with other law enforcement officials, including all Karachi DIGs.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2014.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that the transfer of former Karachi additional IGP Shahid Hayat was made in compliance with the court's orders.
"No time limit has been fixed for the targeted operation and it will continue until the desired results are achieved," he said, while presiding over a law and order meeting at the CM House on Saturday.
During the meeting, a three-member committee - comprising home secretary Dr Niaz Abbasi, law secretary Mir Muhammad Shaikh and Sindh advocate-general Abdul Fatah Malik - was formed to coordinate and convince the judiciary to expedite the cases that have been filed during the targeted operation. Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said that law enforcement agencies will now try to stop terrorism, but added that the end result of this fight depends on the legal system and whether the arrested criminals are convicted in the courts or not.
He also asked other stakeholders, individuals and organisations both, to do their share in order to make this operation successful.
Improving the police
Shah went on to stress that the Sindh government will not allow any interference in police operations and promised that police officers will be selected and posted only on merit.
He added that consultations to increase compensation for the heirs of law enforcers killed in the line of duty are in progress and felt that this will improve the morale of the forces.
As many as 10,000 more police personnel will be inducted in Sindh in the coming year, he claimed, while efforts are being made to institutionalise and sustain the best practices of the police.
He said that the police budget is also being increased for the next fiscal year of 2014-15.
Abbasi and Sindh IGP Iqbal Mehmood also gave briefings on the law and order situation. The home secretary informed the meeting that the National Database and Registration Authority has been approached to help resolve the issue of illegal immigrants in Karachi and the relevant authorities are also being approached to have illegal SIMs blocked.
He also revealed the preparation of a contingency plan to stop the construction of unauthorised seminaries.
Sindh Minister for Information Sharjeel Memon, Sindh DG Rangers Rizwan Akhtar and Karachi additional IGP Ghulam Qadir Thebo also attended the meeting along with other law enforcement officials, including all Karachi DIGs.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2014.