KARACHI, Aug 13: The Sindh government has declared some areas in the city as sensitive in context of local body elections where heavy deployment of law enforcers would be made.
This was disclosed by Sindh Home Secretary Brigadier Ghulam Mohammad Mohtaram in a press conference at the DIG (Operations) office on Saturday, attended by the IG Sindh Asad Jahangir, Capital City Police Chief Tariq Jamil, DIG Operations Mushtaq Shah, DIG Investigation-1 Manzoor Mughal, SP AVCC Farooq Awan and others.
The home secretary said the areas where trouble took place during elections in the past were considered as sensitive. However, he declined to give the exact number of such areas, and said: “there are some areas and not as much as being reported in the media.”
He said the army would be patrolling the city on the polling day, but would not be deployed at any polling station.
About foreign students studying in madressahs, he said 648 foreign students were studying in various madressahs in Sindh and they would be sent back to their home countries. However, no time-frame has not been fixed for their sending them back.
City police chief Tariq Jamil said the Anti-Violence Crime Cell on an information arrested four alleged terrorists of a politico-religious organization. They were identified as Abu Bakr, Tanveer Malik, Noman, and Junaid Ansari.
They were planning to destroy peace in the city ahead of polls, he said.
