22 July 2004	Thursday	04 Jamadi-us-Saani 1425

KARACHI, July 21: Police will approach the city government with a suggestion about the establishment of a diplomatic enclave in an isolated part of the city. This was promised by the city police chief, Tariq Jamil, at a meeting with a delegation of the Defence Residents Society (DRS) on Wednesday.

The DRS president, Zafar Iqbal, told Dawn that the delegation informed Mr Jamil that residents of Defence were greatly inconvenienced by the barricades near the Saudi consulate in Khayaban-i-Shamsheer.

Mr Jamil told the delegation that the blockade had been erected at the request of the Saudi consulate which had received a threat. However, he held out the assurance that the blockade would be removed, adding that the city government should set up the diplomatic enclave either on Super Highway or in some isolated locality.

Mr Jamil also agreed to set up a model police station in Defence and to shift the office of the Clifton TPO from Clifton, Block 4, to a place near the Nisar Shaheed Park, according to Mr Iqbal.

The CCPO, he added, told the delegation that the police had lately been greatly engrossed in tackling violence and sectarian, but now with the improvement in law and order, the police would bring all its energies to bear upon the check on crime in Defence.

Mr Iqbal quoted Mr Jamil as saying that while the police had installed nine vigilance cameras in the city, they had plans to install at least 100 more cameras.

The other members of the delegation were vice presidents Mian Zahid Hussain and Iradat Hussain, social secretary Zia Ahmad Khan, executive committee members M. A. R. Baig, Athar Iqbal, Capt Mehmood Ahmad, Huma Pasha, Mehmood Ahmed and F. A. Jafri. Mr Jamil was accompanied by DIG (operations) Fayyaz Leghari, DIG Traffic Yameen Khan and Clifton TPO Munir Shaikh.