Sindh apex committee decides to crush terrorists, street criminals  

• CM said that the CPLC reported 85,000 cases of street crime in 2022.
• 7000 street crime cases were happening every month in the city.
• Murad Ali Shah directed for decisive operation against criminals.

KARACHI: The Apex Committee in its 28th meeting held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah at CM House assessed the recent uprising in terrorism wave in the country and evaluated overall intelligence reports presented by the different agencies and decided to crush every kind of threat, including terrorism, drug peddling, street crime, and dacoits in Katcha area through an intelligence-based well-coordinated vigorous targeted operation.

The CM also decided that the three IGPs – Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan would sit together, and chalk out a complete plan to launch an operation against the dacoits in the katcha area for which all the law enforcement agencies would support them. “In want, the operation against the bandits must be made a decisive and cleansing operation once and for all,” the CM said categorically.

The meeting was attended by provincial ministers, Naasir Shah, Sharjeel Memon, Murtaza Wahab, Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar, DG Rangers Maj Gen Azhar Waqas, IG Police Ghulam Nabi Memon, provincial heads of Intelligence agencies and other concerned.

The CM said that the CPLC reported 85,000 cases [of street crime] during 2022 and asked the IG Police Ghulam Nabi to brief the meeting. The IG said that four different crimes such as bike snatching, car snatching, mobile snatching, and robberies were constituting `street crime’. He added that 85,000 cases of street crime in the year 2022 meant 7000 cases were happening every month in the city. “If 7000 cases are divided in a month or with 30.5 days it would come to 229 cases per day.

Similarly, 229 or 230 cases per day are divided with 108 police stations in the city the crime per police station per day would come to 2.1 cases,” he said and went on to say that 50 percent of the total street crime cases happened to be of bike snatching – meant one street crime happened to be taking place in the city every day.

Ghulam nabi Memon told the meeting that during 2022 the police performed 2258 encounters, busted 1259 gangs, arrested 16621 dacoits/terrorists, and killed 204.

The CM directed the law department to expedite the process.

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