SEHWAN SHRINE ATTACK
Governor Zubair reiterates resolve to ensure law and
order across the province
Sindh’s governor said on Tuesday that the February 16 attack on Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s shrine in Sehwan was a failed attempt to sabotage peace that prevailed in the province.
“The people of Sindh foiled the attempt through their unity,” Mohammad Zubair said while chairing his first meeting on law and order at the Governor House after being sworn in. “The menace of terrorism should be eliminated from the province on the most indiscriminate basis.”
Zubair said Sindh had always been the land of love and peace where people lived peacefully by observing tolerance and harmony, and maintaining fraternal relations with and expressing affection towards one another.
He reiterated the government’s resolve that the targeted operation in Karachi to rid the city of criminals and terrorists would continue until it was taken to its logical conclusion.
The governor said the Rangers, police, and other law enforcement and security agencies had rendered exemplary sacrifices for the sake of maintaining law and order in the city. “These sacrifices will never be allowed to go in vain.”
He said the government would take all the required measures for maintaining and ensuring stability of law and order in the province, adding that terrorists would be sorted out with an iron fist because they deserved no concession or remission.
Zubair stressed the importance of the upcoming population and housing census being launched on March 15, saying that it would result in determining the current and correct statistics of the populace to ensure fair distribution of national resources.
He said Karachi had reached the stage where it had become an ideal city for making business investments, adding that peace should become a constant in Karachi for ensuring an honourable position for the city on the global economic map.
The governor said economic and social activities had become a source of distinction and recognition for Karachi, adding that being the ‘City of Lights’, Karachi had always bolstered the economic situation of the country.
He said the most distinctive feature of Karachi was that it had persevered with its commercial and economic activities while braving the worst of law and order scenarios.
On the subject of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, he remarked that Pakistan would enter a new phase of development and prosperity with the project’s completion.
He said due security was being provided to Chinese officials and experts working on trade corridor schemes in Pakistan, adding that a special unit was formed within the Sindh police for the purpose.
Sindh police chief IGP AD Khowaja and Home Secretary Qazi Shahid Pervez briefed the governor on the Karachi operation, its targets and results, plans adopted to eliminate terrorists, arrangements made for the upcoming census and administrative steps as regards foreigners living in the province. The meeting was also attended by Rangers Sindh chief Maj Gen Muhammad Saeed, Commissioner Ejaz Khan and Karachi police chief Mushtaq Mehar.
