KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Sindh government to initiate steps to set up a counterterrorism force and a women antiterrorism force in the province.

The PPP chief issued these directives while presiding over a meeting on law and order held in Bilawal House on Friday.

The participants in the meeting — which was attended by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, were MNA Faryal Talpur, Local Bodies Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, the Sindh chief secretary, the IG Police and the Sindh advocate general — reviewed law and order, political situation and other related matters.

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Former president Asif Ali Zardari, who was briefed on steps being taken in these matters by the Sindh government, stressed the need for establishing a counterterrorism force in Sindh and also a women antiterrorism force to meet the challenge of terrorism.

Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2015

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