Punjab, Sindh police being used for political victimisation: Imran

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on Tuesday said the police in Punjab and Sindh were being used for political victimisation while it had emerged as a model force in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The PTI chairman held political leaders responsible for ‘ruining’ police in Sindh and Punjab, adding that fire was opened on hundreds of people in Model Town, Lahore. “We have depoliticised the police force in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Over 400 cops have been dismissed from service on corruption and other charges over the past many months,” Imran Khan told reporters after visiting the Dispute Resolution Councils (DRCs) at the Gulberg Police Station.
He was briefed about the performance of the DRCs that are settling disputes through alternative dispute resolution system all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Before visiting the DRC in Gulberg, Imran Khan met Jaguars, the Special Combat Unit of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police that was recently raised. He along with Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak and Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani also visited Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines where he inspected shooting and heavy weapon handling skills of the female commandos of the Elite Police Force.
Imran Khan appreciated the performance of the female commandos as well as the personnel of the SCU, saying they would play an important role in maintaining peace in the province. There was a plan to launch the Traffic Warden System in the provincial capital but it was postponed.
“People have voted for the change. Now all the political forces are to decide whether they are with the change or otherwise,” Imran Khan said. The PTI chief said that any change in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route would increase hate among the provinces and federation.
Imran Khan also visited the Lady Griffith Higher Secondary School and another school in Doranpur. He later paid a visit to the under-construction Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Hayatabad. The workers of the PTI and Pakistan People’s Party also clashed over chanting slogans against each other when Imran Khan and chief minister were leaving Doranpur after visiting a girls’ primary school. Workers of both the parties exchanged hot words and later thrashed each other with batons in the presence of heavy contingents of police.