It would be no big deal if I resigned over street crime in Karachi: governor

Expressing grave concerns over the regular deaths of innocent persons due to street crime in Karachi, Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori has said it would be no big deal if he resigned from his post in protest against the deteriorating law and order situation.

He made this remark on Saturday while talking to media persons after he visited the residence of the late Ali Rahbar, a rider for a food company who was recently shot dead by robbers on a flyover in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, for offering condolences.

Rahbar was the grandson of Pakistan movement leader Syed Yawar Hussain also known as Kaif Banarsi, whose slogan “But Kay Rahay Ga Hindustan, Lay Kay Rahain Ge Pakistan” became very famous before the Partition in 1947.

Tessori was accompanied by Arts Council President Muhammad Ahmed Shah.

The governor told media persons that he had met immediate family members of the late Rahbar, including his bereaved parents. “Just my conversation with the bereaved mother is quite heart-wrenching for me,” he said.

He urged the Sindh inspector general of police and home minister to probe the killing. “No doubt, justice should be served in the case of every victim of street crime but this incident is highly sorrowful as it involves the killing of a direct descendant of a famous activist of the Pakistan Movement,” the governor said. He announced that he would be responsible for the future education of the late Rahbar’s children.

He lamented that the authorities had failed to prevent street crime incidents in which innocent people had been continuously losing their lives.

He appealed to the Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to sit together with him to collectively adopt a strategy against street crime in the city.