KARACHI, April 5: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Thursday has claimed that the government had totally failed to provide security to citizens which was evident from the deteriorating law and order situation in Sindh.
In their statement, MMA legislators Mohammad Hussain Mehanti, Hameedullah Khan and Yunus Barai pointed out that two persons were shot dead for resisting robbery of their cellphone and such incidents were on the increase in Karachi.
During the past week alone, 12 people were murdered and three others killed in police encounters. As many as 58 cars were stolen and 16 taken away at gunpoint during the week, they said, adding that 95 motorcycles were stolen and 86 snatched on gunpoint.
The legislators noted that 80 theft cases were reported, 125 robberies committed and 1,127 cellphones snatched during the week.
They remarked that the law and order would not improve “until the province is ruled by terrorists and extortionists who have been handed over the province by the rulers just to prolong their rule.”
The MMA legislators also criticised the Sindh governor who had failed to keep his words that no loadshedding would be carried out in the city this year. They pointed out that loadshedding had been resorted to although summer had just started. They apprehended that the loadshedding would ultimately bring water shortage as the pumping stations would fail to function fully.
Meanwhile, MMA leader Mumtaz Sehto has expressed concern over the kidnapping of a minority community boy, Om Prakash, in Jacobabad, and demanded his immediate recovery. He said that the seven-year-old boy had been kidnapped more than 15 days back and was still unaccounted for.
