The Sindh government had given holders of illicit weapons 15-day time to voluntarily surrender their firearms as part of its de-weaponisation campaign on a directive of the apex court. It also imposed a ban on the issuance of new arms licences in Bloody Karachi
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The home department and officials in the five districts of the city confirmed that so far they had received no illegal weapon surrendered voluntarily by any citizen. However,
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they gave a host of reasons behind the holders' reluctance to surrender their illicit arms to the government and hoped that the campaign would catch up its pace in the week starting on Monday.
"The campaign was officially launched on Friday, which was the last day of the week preceded by weekend. We hope that our campaign will gather pace from Monday," said a bigwig.
The government has fixed Oct 11 as the cut-off date for the holders of illicit weapons to surrender their firearms.
He said that the government would launch a campaign to de-weaponise the city if the deadline was not extended.
The city administration itself and all the five district administrations individually corroborated the fact that no one had come forward as yet to surrender an illegal weapon.
Karachi West, some parts of which are notoriously regarded as Karachi's '
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workers attacked. It is the most dangerous part of Karachi," said another bigwig.
The Karachi West administration too had not received any weapon surrendered forcing it to seek support of the mosques to encourage the holders of illicit weapons to cooperate.