KARACHI, Jan 17: Representatives of various parties and organizations intending to the collect hides of sacrificial animals on Eidul Azha on Monday agreed to follow a moral code , besides prescribed rules, and fully cooperate with the law-enforcement agencies in this regard.
The consensus was reached at a meeting with CCPO Tariq Jamil, DIG (Operations) Mushtaque Shah and all TPOs of the city at the Central Police Office.
Adviser to the Chief Minister Mumtaz Hamid represented the Khidmat-i-Khalq Committee at the meeting which was attended by MPA Nasrullah Shaji (MMA), Mohammad Aslam Mujahid (Jamaat-i-Islami), Iftikhar Bhatti (Sunni Tehrik), Mohammad Yaqoob Attari (Da'awat-i-Islami), Ilyas Ahmed and Faisal Salfi (Jamiat Ghurba-i-Ahle Hadees) and Faisal Edhi of the Edhi Foundation.
The agreed upon code of ethics provided that a prior written permission from the home department or the concerned DCO would have to be acquired by any group intending to collect the hides.
The permission will be given only to the registered parties or organizations having signed the code of conduct. No camps would be set up for collecting hides and nobody would be allowed to make announcements from vehicle-mounted loudspeakers of those of a mosque, madressah or an office.
These strict rules are aimed at ensuring that people donated hides at their free will and no one resorted to exerting pressure in this regard. According to the code nobody would be allowed door-to-door visits to seek hides. Instead, people would be free to take the hides to the office, mosque, Madressah, etc of their choice and hand over the same to the volunteers sitting there.
It would be mandatory for the workers of a hide-collecting organization to keep with him his national identity card along with the card issued by his organization and a copy of the permission issued by the home department while shifting the hides from one place to the other. Any violation of the rule would enable the law-enforcing agencies to confiscate the hides.
The meeting decided to provide an overall security at the places of hides collection and to the vehicles involved in their transportation. The concerned organizations will be required to provide information about the movement of such vehicles to the concerned TPO by January 20.
Display of arms, including licensed ones, sticks, iron bars, etc., would be banned during the three days of the Eid. Police will be checking suspected vehicles to ensure observance of the rules.
All hide-collecting bodies are bound to instruct their workers to fully cooperate with law-enforcers. If they failed to produce the permission, or violated the moral code in any way, legal action could be taken against them and the hides collected by them will be confiscated.
The meeting also reviewed special security measures on the Eid days. The CCPO told the meeting that special security and traffic arrangements were being made across the city to ensure peace during the Eid prayer.
Every town has devised its own strategy in this regard and extra police force was being provided to the towns according to their requirements, he said. A control room, with telephone numbers 9201196, 9201197 and '15', will also be established at the office of DIG (Operations). -PPI