Mehanti criticises Sindh govt for failing to end street crime

Sindh Jamaat Islami emir and former MNA Muhammad Hussain Mehanti has condemned the killing of a private university student and writer, Larib, by robbers during a robbery in Korangi, saying that the rising lawlessness in the Sindh province from Karachi to Kashmore is increasing the sense of insecurity among the people.

He said on Wednesday that no one is concerned about the public, and despite the allocation of a huge amount of money in the budget in the name of maintaining peace and law and order, the people are still unsafe.

He added that in Karachi alone, there have been 15,000 incidents of crime, 26 murders and thousands of people have been deprived of their precious vehicles in the past two months, which is a failure of the Sindh government and the incompetence of the administration.

The JI leader said that without an operation against the bandits and making the police apolitical, it seems impossible to restore peace and end the bandit rule. The government has miserably failed to protect the life and property of the citizens, he added.

He said that due to the government’s incompetence, the entire province is currently burning in the fire of insecurity. Kidnapping for ransom has become a profitable business, he added. The people were already facing severe hardships due to inflation, unemployment and backbreaking utility bills, and the situation of insecurity had made their lives more miserable, he emphasised.

Meanwhile, Karachi JI emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has demanded a judicial probe into the release and then withdrawal of “fake” Form 45s from the website of the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Commenting on the uploading of Form 45 of election constituencies and its subsequent withdrawal from ECP website, he said the ECP removed the fake Form 45s after the commission realized that it had committed irregularities in the form.