Karachi: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Mlik on Thursday has given 48 hours deadline to miscreants in Lyari in order to put down their weapons in front of Rangers.
Talking to media in Karachi Malik said that messages were conveyed from miscreants in Lyari that they wanted to put down their weapons in front of Rangers.
“The check-posts of Rangers will be set-up in Lyari from today,” he said.
“There is someone behind the scene who is providing modern weaponry to miscreants in Lyari,” he said adding that if rocket-launchers and grenades would be found from any house, after the surrender of weapons in front of Rangers, it would be set on fire.
“Mobile service will be restored in Lyari within 3 hours,” he said adding that four helicopters equipped with machine guns would be used for surveillance of the area.
Malik said that each street of Lyari would be under surveillance and a check-post would also be set-up at Hub Chowki.
The interior minister further claimed that Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Baloch Liberation Army were involved in creating disturbance in Lyari adding that talibanisation is growing in Karachi.
 “We will not allow Lyari to become Swat or Malakand,” the minister added.
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