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India-Pakistan
'Foreign agencies involved in disturbing law and order'
2008-05-24
The Senate Standing Committee for the Interior chairman, Senator Talha Mehmood Ahmed, has said that the information they have establishes the involvement of foreign agencies in disturbing the law and order of Pakistan.
“The foreign agencies are using people for their nefarious plans and we need to deal with the situation with a well-conceived plan, so that people are provided security and their problems are solved.”
“The agencies are using people for their nefarious plans and we need to deal with the situation with a well-conceived plan, so that people are provided security and their problems are solved,” he said while addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Friday. Ahmed said that all the agencies working in the country should function within their prescribed parameters. Quoting an example, he said that the coastguards are meant to keep a watch at the coast, but instead have come on to the roads.

He advised the coastguard set up a check post at Uthal and said that people belonging to Sindh and Balochistan have to wait for hours for physical searches and of their vehicles. “I have sought a report from the force within 15 days against the complaints received about the Uthal check post,” he said. “If the coastguard fails to make its point, the committee will recommend that it should be dispensed with,” he added.

If the Rangers are to be deployed in the city on a permanent basis, the government must provide them accommodation. “The police and rangers need to be equipped properly and provided with equipment and vehicles and must possess a strong intelligence network,” he added. He said that police have failed to maintain law and order and the major evidence is that people burnt three dacoits, showing that they have lost trust in the police. He added that if the police wanted its trust back, it should work really hard to maintain law and order in the country.

He said that a gang of dacoits was arrested and one of its members was a sitting Inspector of Police but he was let off after he paid Rs 70,000. “We are promoting corruption,” he said. When motorcycle police officers are provided 1.5 liters of fuel and police mobiles with 3.5 liters for 24 hours, they will have no other option but to meet their requirements from the public.
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