KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet which met here on Saturday with Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah in the chair fully supported the decisions taken at a recent meeting presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif about expediting the ongoing targeted operation against criminals in Karachi.
The cabinet also sought a financial package of Rs27 billion to upgrade police stations and strengthen and equip police, enabling them to make the targeted operation a success. The cabinet decided to set up a separate Counter Terrorism Department, providing latest training to Rapid Response Force (RRF) and carrying out legislation work to purge the police department of ‘black sheep’.
The meeting discussed matters relating to law and order, illegal immigrants, draft of first power policy and eradication of polio, measles and rubella virus.
It also expressed satisfaction over the performance of law enforcement agencies during the targeted operation in Karachi.
Declaring 26 police stations in Karachi and the Karachi, Hyderabad and Larkana central prisons as sensitive, it approved a decision to increase salaries of personnel working there.
The cabinet directed the Sindh IGP to provide foolproof security to all mosq-ues, imambargahs and worship places of minorities.
The chief secretary informed the meeting that a plan for shifting the ATC Courts to the Malir Cantonment was under way. He said that proposals for issuance of red warrants of the criminals who had fled the country had been sent to the federal government for onward submission to the Interpol. —PPI
Published in Dawn, May 18th, 2014