May 18, 2008	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 12, 1429

LARKANA, May 17: Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza has said the government is considering giving control of investigation wing of police to District Police Officers (Operation) in some districts of the province. And if the policy succeeds, it would be extended to the rest of the districts in the province.

He was addressing at the annual parents day held at Quaid-i-Awam Public School Larkana on Friday.

He said the present government was fully committed to maintain law and order situation under control and would provide relief to the people.

Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza said that the government had also planned to immediately recruit 8,500 personnel in police department.

He said to overcome the shortage of policemen, 10,000 police officials would be recruited every year in the province.

He said that the Pakistan People’s Party government had inherited a deteriorating law and order situation from the previous regime.

On the occasion schoolchildren presented tableaux. Principal of the school presented the welcome address.

Two recovered: A court official of the sessions court Qambar-Shahdadkot raided the Drigh police station and recovered two persons kept in illegal detention.

Wajid Ali Khaskheli, a resident of Qambar town, in a petition to the sessions judge alleged that the SHO of Drigh police station had arrested his brother Sajid Khaskheli and Muneer Khaskheli three days back and since then kept them in illegal confinement.

The sessions judge appointed Muhammed Ali Pirzado, assistant office superintendent of the court with an instruction to locate the detainees. On Saturday, when he raided the police station, he found two persons lodged in the lock up. The duty in-charge failed to produce any documents validating their arrests.

The court officials let them off and asked the in-charge to appear along with the SHO in the court on May 19 and bring papers, if any, showing the arrest of the two.

BANDIT: Qambar police claimed to have killed a bandit Abdul Rahim Mgasi and arrested his accomplice Manthar in an encounter and recovered a Kalashnikov and some robbed articles, including cell phones from their possession.

However, the relatives of the killed bandit on Saturday demonstrated against the police at Martyrs Square and accused the police of killing an innocent person. Police began probe.