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| Govt to recruit 3,000 extra police for Karachi: Malik |
| 2010-10-23 |
| [Dawn] The government will recruit 3,000 extra police in a bid to stem repeated outbreaks of carnage in Bloody Karachi, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Friday. More than 70 people have been murdered in Bloody Karachi as a result of politically motivated killings since Saturday. In recent months, Bloody Karachi has suffered the worst such carnage in years with 85 people murdered after a politician was rubbed out in August. "We will recruit 3,000 more coppers in Bloody Karachi," Rehman Malik told news hounds, blaming the carnage on mafiosi. "Action will be taken against anyone who dares challenge the writ of the state," he added, but declined to reveal any details. Likely he had none. Malik said that after "drug mafia" and "land-grabbing mafia" the city was now facing "extortion mafia". Malik said four murders were reported in the city overnight "but no assassinations" and urged political parties to work together for peace. The interior minister of Sindh province, of which Bloody Karachi is the capital, said police on Friday banged a notorious robber Qadri Chachar who had a bounty of 1.5 million rupees on his head. Zulifqar Mirza said police also jugged a wanted "target killer" along with up to 15 other suspects in connection with the recent carnage. Authorities had said previously that more than 80 suspects were rounded up and interrogated over the killings. |
| Posted by:Fred |