LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek general secretary Khurram Nawaz Gandapur has released a report on the law and order situation of Punjab in the month of January.

He released the report here on Friday, saying the resignation of Chaudhry Muhammed Sarwar as governor was the beginning of the fall of the incumbent rulers. He asked the chief minister to name the players of land mafia that had forced the governor to resign.

The report says that in the first month of 2015, 200 people committed suicide due to food shortage. Over 170 innocent people, most of them PAT workers from Bakkhar and Okara, faced police torture.

A total of 307,000 crimes of severe nature, including gang-rape and rape of young girls and boys, were reported while over 80 per cent of crime incidences were not allegedly registered by the police as “part of a policy to show minimum crime” in the province.

Only two per cent of the rape and murder cases were solved by the police, the report says, citing figures from national and regional newspapers and the electronic media.

It says that on 10 occasions the Lahore High Court found the police culprit and declared police officials as robbers, bandits and incompetent.

Published in Dawn, January 31st, 2015

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