Lanjar orders law enforcers to prepare Eidul Azha contingency plan

Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar has ordered law enforcing departments to prepare a contingency plan for the upcoming Eidul Azha, saying that measures such as strict implementation of the code of conduct should be made part of the contingency plan.

He said in the guidelines issued to the police on Monday that to implement the code of conduct regarding the sacrifice of animals, they should make all security measures impartial and take all stakeholders into confidence.

The Eidul Azha 2025 Contingency Plan should be prepared on a priority basis at the range, zone and district levels and sent for review so that the safety of the life and property of the people can be ensured, Lanjar said. He further said that all registered welfare and social institutions and organizations, religious schools, and other stakeholders should be bound by the contents and conditions of the code of conduct issued by the Sindh government. The process of scrutinizing written permits and other necessary documents regarding the movement and transfer should be made a part of the contingency plan.

The home minister said that under the Eid security plan, steps should be taken at all levels to implement the orders issued from time to time by the Central Command and Control Center established in the Central Police Office so that suspicious activities can be detected through monitoring and possible nefarious intentions can be thwarted in a timely manner, thereby ensuring peace and complete police control over the situation.

In addition, in this regard, measures such as the interconnection of the zonal district control rooms established in the city and the wireless control rooms of the police stations should also be made highly coordinated and effective.

He said the lists of all mosques, Imambargahs, Eidgahs, and other open places of Eid prayers in the province should be reviewed and later divided into categories to ensure the deployment of not only the relevant police but also the police commandos. The prepared plan should also cover the responsibilities of SSPs, SPs, SDPOs and SHOs in detail.

Lanjar said surveillance teams consisting of plainclothes personnel should also be formed at the police station level, whose deployment should be made possible in shopping centers, crowded public places, cattle markets, and designated parking lots and inside and around Eid prayer places.

Meanwhile, the home minister directed that the polio campaign process across Sindh, including Karachi, should be made extremely safe and extraordinary in every respect. Coordination with relevant institutions should be ensured during the polio campaign.

On the occasion of the polio campaign, all security measures should be made very solid by dividing the union councils into categories. The police commandos should be deployed in sensitive union councils to protect the polio drops staff, lady health workers and their teams.

Lanjar said a barrier strategy should be adopted during security measures. The overall measures of administering polio drops to children by going door to door should be made effective and successful. Measures such as police patrolling, snap checking, and blockades should be tightened in all districts. The district SSPs are required to supervise the security measures of the polio campaign.