[Dawn] The Supreme Court has ordered the Sindh government to take immediate action against all gangs in Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, including the Taliban, DawnNews reported.
In an interim order issued Saturday, the Supreme CourtÂ’s bench five-member hearing a case for the implementation of the apex courtÂ’s earlier order in a suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means
I saw what you did, you bastard...
case related to the law and order situation in Bloody Karachi directed the provincial government to arrest all prisoners released on parole and present them before it.
The bench was headed by Justice Anwer Zaheer Jamali with Justices Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Khilji Arif Hussain, Gulzar Ahmed and Amir Hani Mohammedan as members.
The order, which constitutes eight pages, says that the provincial government should take the issue of the presence of the Taliban in Bloody Karachi seriously.
In an earlier hearing on the same case, Justice Jamali had said there were reports of between 6,000 and 7,000 Taliban activists having made their way into the city. The court had then directed Sindh police chief Fayyaz Leghari to submit a detailed report in this regard.
During the previous hearing, Inspector-General of Prisons Zafar Abbas Bukhari has presented to the court a list of 193 convicts and 35 under-trial prisoners who were released on parole since 2003.
Commenting on the report, Justice Jamali has remarked: “This is a very serious issue. It seems a parallel judicial system is being run by the home department and convicts are being released even after their convictions are upheld.”
The bench, in its short order on Saturday, ordered that the 35 under-trial prisoners released on parole be tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
on immediately. It further stated that the police and other law enforcement agencies had failed in providing security to the citizens.
The court also directed the Sindh government to take immediate steps to protect the citizens against assassinations. Moreover, the court also ordered that all firearm licenses should be computerised within three months and all previous non-computerised licenses be cancelled.
The interim verdict also ordered authorities to take action against illegal unregistered vehicles in the city, directing the government to implement its all of its directives within three monthsÂ’ time.