DPSC for local policing plan

Published August 27, 2003

LARKANA, Aug 26: The District Public Safety Commission at a meeting held here on Tuesday underlined the importance of a local policing plan.

The meeting said the police department should prepare the LPP and furnish it before the DPSC.

The DSP, operation, and the DSP, investigation, assured the meeting to prepare the LPP.

DPSC member Badr Uddin Abbasi proposed that open kutchehries should be held at the taluka level to establish liaison between the police and the people.

Members Dr Jamshed Abro and Nasreen Aaghani complained that the police were not cooperating with them.

The meeting was presided over by DPSC chairman Niaz Ahmad Chandio.—APP

COP INJURED: A head constable of the Hydry police station, Ghulam Yaseen Kalhoro, was wounded when police went to arrest an absconder at the Naodero Chowk, Larkana, on Tuesday, reports Our Correspondent.

Police sources said that police were tipped off regarding the presence of the absconder in the city, so a police party of the Hydry police headed for a teashop in Naodero Chowk. However, the absconder and his accomplice on seeing the police opened fire as a result of which the head constable was injured.

Both the accused managed to escape under the cover of fire.

The Hydry police have registered a case against the absconder, identified as Sahib Khan Aagani, and his unknown accomplice under sections 324 and 354 PPC.

PPP ACTIVISTS: A large number of PPP activists on Tuesday held a protest demonstration in Larkana against the verdict of a Swiss court against PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

The activists termed the Swiss court verdict “biased” and demanded an end to the media trial against PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

They chanted slogans against MNA Raza Hayat Hiraj and demanded his resignation for allegedly misbehaving with a PPP woman MNA and political secretary to Benazir Bhutto, Naheed Khan.

The demonstration started from the Waleed area.

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