Security concerns: Memon wants security plan for schools, malls, restaurants

Assure the timber market fire victims that they will be compensated on same pattern as victims of Bolton Market fire

KARACHI: Information and local government minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has demanded a security plan for all private schools, shopping malls and restaurants.

"A standard operating procedure should contain details of the guards, their trainings, the weapons available with them, the number of guards and the places of their deployment must be mentioned," he suggested. Memon was speaking to the media after a law and order meeting at CM House on Tuesday evening.

Memon also met an association of the timber market, which was recently destroyed in a massive fire, and assured the people that they will be compensated on the same pattern as the victims of the Bolton Market fire in 2009.

He also commented on the arrest of Uzair Baloch of Lyari and said that the notorious gangster belonged to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). "He has not publicly joined the PTI but is a sympathiser of the party," he claimed. Memon also denied reports that the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government supports the Lyari gangsters. "The incumbent government has conducted more raids and taken action against the criminals in Lyari than any other part of the city," he said. 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 31^st, 2014.