HYDERABAD: Chairman of his own faction of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) Riaz Ali Chandio and other office-bearers have expressed concern over lawlessness in Larkana and Sukkur divisions despite expenditures of billions of rupees on Sindh police and Rangers.

In a joint statement issued on Sunday, they said dacoits could not be controlled in those two divisions and even street crime was on the rise there.

They alleged that people from Balochistan Khyber and Pakhtunkhwa were committing crime in Sindh.

Those incidents were reminding the people of Sindh that they were the third rated citizens and there was no law, they said, adding that nobody arrested the criminals who murdered innocent people and traders.

If armed outlaws from Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa openly questioned the writ of the state, the Rangers and police had arms as well, they argued.

The office-bearers said the state was supposed to eliminate crime and added that even in the colonial era Sindh witnessed peace. Nobody dared carrying weapons at that time in Sindh. But in recent times, there was no rule of law, they said.

They demanded of the government to restore peace in Sindh and save people from what they said excesses of police, Rangers, waderas and armed mobs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

Published in Dawn, May 6th, 2024