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Murad orders combing out policemen working for drug mafia

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Murad orders combing out policemen working for drug mafia

Overall, 1961 cases of street crime were reported in Karachi, of them 236 in South Zone, 1070 East and 655 West Zone during last ten days. 

Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the police department on Wednesday to comb out black sheep from their ranks who are working for drug mafia.

“I have reports that some of the policemen are allegedly working as facilitators to the drug dealers and their presence in the police force is detrimental for the reputation of the police service, therefore they must be combed out and brought to book.”

He issued these directives while presiding over a meeting on law and order here at CM House. The meeting was attended by acting Chief Secretary Qazi Shahid Pervez, IG Police Mushtaq Maher, Additional IG CTD Ghulam Nabi Maher, Additional IG Karachi Imran Minhas, DIGs Umer Shahid, Saqib Ismail, Akbar Riaz, Pir M. Shah, Nauman Siddiqui and others.

The chief minister has given special tasks to the police to conduct operations against drug dealers and curb crime against women, children and minorities.

The IG Police in his briefing said that during the last 10 days – August 21 to 31, 2021 over all five cases were registered under crime against minorities, 22 cases of offense against women, nine cases against crime against children, 198 cases against trade in contrabands and 798 cases against drug mafia.

The chief minister was told that 798 cases of drug trafficking were registered against which 879 accused were arrested. The recovery was huge in terms of quantity, the IG said and added 547.851 kg hashish, 19.3 kg Ice, 10.65 kg heroin, 2.82 kg opium and 17307 liters of liquor have been recovered.

It was told that two major gangs of drug trafficking have been busted by arresting their leaders and gangsters. One of the gangsters was an Afghani and the other belonged to Balochistan.

Shah gave a task to the IG police, Additional IG Karachi and DIGs of the Zones/Ranges to start high level secret inquiries against such policemen and bring them to book.

The IG said that overall, 1961 cases of street crime were reported in Karachi, of them 236 in South Zone, 1070 East and 655 West Zone.

Shah directed the IG police to ask his DIGs to hold meetings with their SHOs and task them for curbing crime against minorities, women, children and drug mafia and maintain overall law and order in their respective areas effectively. (PR)

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