MQM-P blasts Sindh govt over alarming rise in Karachi street crimes

Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) yet again blasted the Sindh government over the alarming rise in street crimes in Karachi.

Addressing the media in Karachi on Sunday, MQM-P leaders Khawaja Izharul Hassan and Senator Faisal Sabzwari slammed the Sindh government over the woeful law and order situation.

Faisal Sabzwari said the Home Ministry had been with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for 16 years and the law and order situation in the province was still deplorable. He said multiple citizens were killed while resisting robberies during Ramadan. Billions of rupees of mobile phones were snatched in the metropolis, he said.

MQM-P senator alleged police of connivance for street crimes in Karachi saying robbers would not break the law without the support of the black sheep in the police department.

The MQM-P leader demanded the provincial government increase police patrolling in middle-class areas of the city.

Senator Sabzwari said, “We called on police officials and Sindh Rangers director general, while we will hold a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari as well to discuss the law and order situation across the province.”

He demanded a formation of a neighbourhood security system warning that if the government did not form the system, then the MQM-P would itself do that, no matter what.

The senior politician urged the Sindh High Court (SHC) chief justice to take up the case of lawlessness in Karachi summon all the relevant authorities and inquire them about the failure to overcome crimes in the city.

“Street crime has become an industry. Police should stop collecting ‘Eidi’ and put a harness on the criminal elements,” he said.

Sabzwari lambasted Sindh Home Minister Zia ul Hassan Lanjar over his failure to control street crimes and reminded him that he was the home minister of the entire province and not a coordinator of a political personality.

MQM-P leader Khawaja Izharul Hassan, who was also present for the press conference, sarcastically congratulated the Sindh government over getting appointed the inspector general of its choice.

“The provincial government blackmailed the federal government to get the IG of its choice appointed. The news of the appointment of the new IG triggered a wave of happiness among the dacoits from Karachi to Kashmore,” Khawaja Izharul Hassan said.

In the presence of an IG, they said the issue of law and order would deteriorate if their desired IG was not appointed, he said.

Khawaja Izharul Hassan added that “it seemed as if the robbers are given a licence to kill as they are shooting people dead over cell phones of few thousand rupees.