Islamabad: The upper House of Pakistan’s Assembly, Senate, on Monday adopted with majority a resolution seeking steps to deweaponize Karachi.
The resolution which was tabled by Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Shahi Syed was approved by majority while Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) reiterated that not just Karachi but the entire country should be deweaponized.
MQM Senator Tahir Mashhadi said that not just Karachi but the whole country should be cleansed of illegal weapons.
Another MQM Senator Mustafa Kamal said the presence of weapons is a country-wide phenomenon and not restricted to Karachi only.
“Even if Karachi is made weapon-free, the arms will once again be smuggled to the city in the next six months,” Mustafa Kamal maintained, arguing the cure for the cancer is not a cosmetic surgery but the disease will have to be uprooted from the system.
ANP Leader, Senator Haji Muhammad Adeel said that police has failed in Karachi in the maintenance of law and order situation, as five people fall victim to the ongoing violence in the city every day on an average.
He said incidents of kidnapping for ransom and extortion are on a constant rise in the metropolis.
Adeel said Nasirullah Babar had conducted a successful operation in Karachi but the police officers who had executed it had to bear the brunt of it later when the new government came to power.
The Rangers continue to remain deployed in Karachi for the past twenty years but peace has not been restored in the city, he regretted.
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