Gen Raheel chairs meeting to review Karachi's security

Published January 27, 2016
The army chief was briefed on the progress made in the ongoing Karachi operation. -Photo: ISPR
The army chief was briefed on the progress made in the ongoing Karachi operation. -Photo: ISPR

KARACHI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday chaired a security review meeting at Corps Headquarters where the military chief was briefed on the progress made in the ongoing Karachi operation, the military’s media wing said.

Gen Raheel appreciated the effectiveness of intelligence based operations and lauded Rangers and other law enforcement agencies for their coordinated cooperation during the ongoing operation in the metropolis, Inter-Services Public Relations chief Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa tweeted.

The army chief commended intelligence agencies for achieving major breakthrough in unearthing various terrorist networks in North Waziristan in an attempt to dismantle terrorist infrastructure and sever their linkages with terrorist cells bases outside Karachi.

“We would go to any length to make Karachi secure and free of terrorism in order to ensure a peaceful and fearless daily life for the people of the metropolis,” Gen Raheel was quoted as saying.

It’s not only the MQM which is uncomfortable with the ‘Karachi operation’, but the PPP-led Sindh government has also found the Rangers crossing limits on a few occasions.

Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has also accused the Rangers of ‘acting beyond their authority’ in Karachi and asked its chief to ‘limit’ movement of his men in line with the rules after the Rangers soldiers “raided” the Sindh Building Control Authority and the Lines Area Development Project offices.

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