Sindh Assembly passes resolution to ban toy guns

MQM MPA moves resolution, says parents purchase toy guns as gifts for their children, which influences them negatively

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly adopted a resolution on Tuesday to impose a ban on the manufacture, import and sale of toy guns for being misuses and for promoting negativity among children.

The resolution was moved by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) Syed Saifudin Khalid who said, “Unfortunately, parents proudly purchase these toy guns as gifts for their children and this is what motivates them at a tender age towards violence and crime,” Khalid said.

During the debate on the resolution, many MPAs took it a few steps further and demanded to actually de-weaponise Sindh entirely.

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Speaking on the issue, Jam Khan Shoro of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) said that many plastic guns appear to be real and often criminals use them to loot people.

“A gang has recently been busted in Punjab that used to loot people showing plastic guns. No one can judge whether these guns are real or just toys,” he said.

Moreover, Syed Hafeezuddin of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) demanded to ban all types of guns in order to create a weapon-free society.