[DAWN] Though terror-related incidents have been reduced up to 60 per cent in the two years since the commencement of the Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
operation, sleeper cells of terror outfits still exist in the metropolis and law enforcers are making concerted efforts to eliminate the same, Karachi Police AIG Mushtaq Maher told media on Saturday.
Sharing gains made during the two years of the Karachi operation at the Karachi Police Office (KPO) along with a senior Rangers official, Maher claimed that about 232 police personnel including officers embraced martyrdom during the Karachi operation while 23 Rangers personnel laid their lives fighting Lions of Islam in the city.
The city police chief said 3,000 hardcore criminals had been locked away
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, while 246 terrorists, 38 kidnappers and ten extortionists had been killed so far in police encounters.
He further claimed that car-snatching incidents reported in the city were the lowest in the past 15 years while cycle of violence-snatching incidents were on the rise, which he said will be curtailed.