KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday sought comments from the Rangers’ director general, provincial police chief, home secretary and others on a petition seeking that investigation into the mysterious knife attacks be carried out by Rangers and Federal Investigation Age­ncy (FIA) instead of the “incompetent” police.

The petition was filed by Justice Helpline, a non-governmental organisation, submitting that over a dozen women had been attacked with a sharp-edged weapon in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Guls­han-i-Jamal, Dalmia, Nipa Chowrangi and adjacent areas. The women were frightened by these stabbing incidents but the police and other relevant departments had miserably failed to track down the attacker.

Atam Parkash and Advocate Nadeem Shaikh maintained in the petition that the investigative authorities were confused about the identity and motive of the attacker.

Issuing notices to the respondents, the court sought their respective replies by the next hearing.

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2017