Karachiites told to carry CNICs at all times, warned of detention
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KARACHI: Residents of Karachi have been asked to carry their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) with them at all time and warned that failure to do so can result in their detention, according to a Rangers handout.
"Citizens of Karachi are requested to keep with them, their ID Cards at all times for confirmation of their identity," the Rangers statement said adding that, "Copies of NIC will not be acceptable and the individual in question will be taken into custody till his/ her identity is positively proven."
The statement further said that law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) are working day and night to arrest criminals and target killers and asked citizens to cooperate in the drive against criminals.
Citizens are urged to report any attempt to snatch or collect your NIC, on Rangers SMS or helpline 1101.
The latest development comes amid a joint grand targeted operation which was launched with great fanfare in September 2013 in the hopes of improving the law and order situation in Karachi.
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Apr 21, 2015 02:59am
this is terrible and maniac are we living in rangers occupied Karachi? how can on earth you justify such act, it will generate more hatred among Karachiites for rangers.
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Apr 21, 2015 05:21am
Innocent men will obey the law. Good citizens will comply in order to aid the police in preventing crime.
People always complain the police never arrive in time, but only after the crime is committed. Karachiites can help themselves here. In a city of 20 million it is not so easy to find the offenders the police are seeking. This will help.
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Apr 21, 2015 07:07am
Karachiites have the moral responsibility to cooperate with the LEAs in true letter and spirit. Otherwise they will keeping living with the dreaded environment maintained by the target killers. So the choice is with the poeple of Karachi.
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Apr 21, 2015 07:29am
Vow, are we living in communist Russia or we are living in some detention camp, does this applies to all other city in Pakistan or just people of Karachi are being targeted.
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Apr 21, 2015 08:09am
why in Karachi only? this should be all over Pakistan, every one should carry their computerised national identity cards.
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Apr 21, 2015 08:11am
Very good move.
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Apr 21, 2015 08:19am
Rangers should have a biometric machine so that they can can verify from thumb impression of any citizen for the identity. There should be a rangers identity verification booth at every corner of street to avoid long queues. Only this way we can make our city a better place to live.
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Apr 21, 2015 08:36am
This is stupidity. Rangers know very well that Karachiites don't keep their original CNICs because incase it is snatched by dacoits, it will be very difficult to get a duplicate. Rangers should rather focus on catching dacoits and get the crime rate down of Karachi instead of making life difficult for the residents of Karachi.
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Apr 21, 2015 08:57am
Ask China to develop wrist watches with biometric ids that should have bluetooth tags carrying biometric info of the carrier and LEAs must have a bluetooth reader, a computer that should be connected with NADRA system. That's it. Now LEAs can watch every walking human in Karachi streets without intercepting them for nothing.
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Apr 21, 2015 09:04am
But the thieves will steal our wallet and our original NIC cards :(
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Apr 21, 2015 09:07am
Is martial law imposed in Karachi?
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Apr 21, 2015 01:22pm
@Fareed In case of snatching please be remain with the snatcher so that when rangers demand for CNIC you can easily resnatch your CNIC and present it to rangers. We all must cooperate with rangers to beat crime.
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Apr 21, 2015 11:10pm
Who is rangers to pass orders to the citizenry of this country? They have no authority over us, only the duty to carry the orders of the elected government. And if this order is from the government then I would like to see the copy of the legislation which claims a law is broken when a person does not carry his id card on his or her person when on public domain.
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Apr 22, 2015 12:33am
This is very shameful decision made by the government. Why citizens of Karachi always have been discriminated and treated like a 3rd class citizen and slaves? Whoever made this decision is acting like a “HITLER” who was after Jewish community same way this government is after Citizens of Karachi, especially after majiirs community.
Why this government ordering only Citizens of Karachi to turn their illegal arms in? Why not ask all citizens of Pakistan to do the same? Peoples of Karachi are not stupid, they can see this government is only after “majjirs”. For God sake, please stop open discrimination, treat everyone equally with respect dignity and on merit basis, end quota system now.
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Apr 22, 2015 04:19am
Pakistan Rangers are behaving like dictators issuing this kind of illegal orders. Looks like we have to many chiefs running Pakistan government. It will be wise to entire Sind under Army control and let them do the cleaning without any discramanation.
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