Over 5,000 crimes reported in Karachi during June: Report
Jul 10, 2024
Karachi [Pakistan], July 10 : Over 5000 crimes were reported in Karachi in the month of June, a report revealed, according to Geo News, as the law and order across Pakistan continue to deteriorate.
The appalling figures were reported by Sindh's Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) about the state of crime in the port city last month.
The report indicates that a total of 5,288 crimes were reported in Karachi in June, Geo News reported.
Among the reported crimes, 2,792 motorcycles were recorded as stolen. Out of these stolen motorcycles, 564 were snatched from citizens at gunpoint, with a mere 196 motorcycles recovered by the police.
24 vehicles were snatched and 135 vehicles were stolen in different areas of the city within the span of 30 days. Only 80 vehicles could be recovered successfully, the report said.
For mobile thefts, mobile phones of a total of 1,433 citizens were reported stolen, and the police recovered merely 18 of them.
The CPLC report also revealed that 40 people were killed due to violence in various areas of the city in the June and six extortion cases were registered in Karachi in the same month, Geo News reported.
Karachi, which is the financial hub of Pakistan, is festered with street crimes, as the worrying statistics in the CPLC report for June suggest.
Despite almost 6,000 criminals being transferred to Karachi Central Jail in the first five months of the ongoing year, the law and order situation in the metropolis continues to deteriorate with citizens being looted and killed by street criminals.
President Asif Ali Zardari chaired a special meeting over the law and order situation in Sindh in May. He had directed Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to launch a large-scale operation against street criminals in Karachi.
The report, however, doesn't mention cases of "kidnapping for ransom" or "bank robbery/dacoity".
Earlier on June 15, The Superintendent of Police (SP) of Islamabad was injured in an attack by unknown men. A group of women were allegedly harassed at a restaurant in Islamabad and the citizens called the police for help.
However, when city's SP Khan Zeb arrived at the scene and tried to stop the suspects from harassing the women, he was attacked, and suffered injuries.
