[Dawn] The provincial government of Sindh axed the Inspector General of police on Wednesday over a kaboom that killed 50 people in a Shia Moslem areneighbourhood of 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...
, following stinging criticism by the country's Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed the hearing over Abbas Town tragedy at the Supreme Court's Karachi registry.
During the hearing, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry remarked that the Rangers had completely failed at establishing law and order in the city, and that the government did not appear serious over the issue.
He further said that incidents of terrorism continued in the city despite the presence of 11,000 Rangers personnel who enjoyed special policing powers.
The court ordered the Rangers' chief to use his 11,000 troops to safeguard the city's entry points and not allow "a single bullet to enter".
Rangers' Director General Rizwan Akhtar said his troops conducted overnight operations and jugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
59 suspects in the blast.
The court ordered the country's three main intelligence agencies, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) , Military Intelligence (MI) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB), to submit reports on Friday on the blast.
The court also issued notices to officials of the federal government and intelligence agencies summoning them to appear in court on Mar 8.
The court also instructed for the suspension of Malir Police chief SP Rao Anwar.
The Chief Justice had taken suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means
I saw what you did, you bastard...
notice on an office note sent by the SC Registrar based on clippings of different newspapers over a deadly bombing last week in Karachi's Abbas Town in which around 50 people reportedly bit the dust and almost 200 others were maimed.
The note said the incident enraged the members of a particular community that erupted into the streets demanding immediate arrest of the killers and the situation in many areas remained tense.
Anwer Mansoor Khan, lawyer for Sindh provincial government, told a Supreme Court hearing in Karachi on Wednesday that police chief Fayyaz Leghari was being removed from his post, along with one of his deputies.
Leghari was also removed from his post in June 2011, but was later reinstated, after security forces rubbed out an unarmed man in a public park.