KARACHI, April 16: Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad said on Friday that the present government had restored law and order in the province and Karachi was now as peaceful and safe as any other big city of the world.

"We have achieved a remarkable success in the war on terrorism," he said while talking to a British parliamentary delegation in the Governor's House. "Karachi is the seventh largest city of the world which also face similar challenges."

During the last one year, the provincial government had smashed several terrorist groups, arresting 196 such criminals, he said and added that 47 of them had already been awarded sentences.

"It was due to the improved law and order that Karachi Stock Market set new records and the investment quantum increased." He said the Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate had advertised 100 plots for which it received 4,000 applications, including 90 from foreign investors.

Replying to a question regarding the identification and arrest of the assassins of Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Hakeem Muhammad Said, the governor said 90 per cent of the culprits involved in the incidents that took place during the tenure of this government had been traced.

"The present government has no concern with the failures of the past governments," he said, and added that the present government was paying attention to those cases also and expected to achieve positive results. As regards the murder of MPA Abdullah Murad, Governor Ibad said the government had taken all possible steps to arrest the assassins. -PPI