KARACHI, April 3: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has issued directive for the setting up of ‘traders-police liaison boards’ at town level. Talking to a delegation of the representatives of small traders and more than 250 market associations here at the Governor’s House, he said law and order could be maintained through community policing and by taking people at every level into confidence.

The government will extend full cooperation to the businessman community to ensure protection and necessary facilities to small traders and shopkeepers, he said.

He told them that a coordinated programme to help stabilize small- and medium-size industries and trade was in the process of implementation. He also referred to the simplification of rules and regulations and provision of loan on easy terms in this regard.

Dr Ibad pointed out that positive results were achieved wherever community policing had been introduced.

He said that federal departments also were cooperating in maintaining law and order in Sindh, besides contributing towards development activities.

He referred to the initiative taken by Federal Shipping Minister Babar Khan Ghouri who had arranged a donation of 65 mobile vans for the Sindh Police, and stressed that other departments should follow suit. He said Karachi must not be regarded as only a city of Sindh. “Rather, it is the economic backbone of Pakistan where people from all parts of the country live.”

He exhorted the police force to discharge its duties honestly and ensure fully bridging the void between police and people.

Babar Ghouri apprised the meeting of his ministry’s development projects.—APP