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Saturday, April 19, 2008
By Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh Police, under its new chief Dr Shoaib Suddle, are putting its act together to launch a "low intensity operation" against terrorists, kidnappers, extortionists and miscreants.
The pace of the drive will remain quite slow and sporadic till all the intelligence agencies are fully on board and are wholeheartedly involved in back-up support. "Without the absolute intelligence support, no operation will meet success in Karachi. There will be no point in doing a patchy work because it encourages terrorists," a police official, who was recently transferred to Karachi after 12 years, told The News.
"Unless the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is comprehensively associated with any such difficult drive, we can't go the whole yard and take the troublemakers head-on. This premier outfit has all the resources and high-tech required for such a drive, which would do wonders in such operations," he said.
During his recent visit to Islamabad, the officer showed to this correspondent a huge bundle of documents, wrapped in a shopping bag, giving graphic details of those who had been resorting to killings and creating anarchy and chaos in Karachi. The officer has been on the "hit list" of terrorists for his all-inclusive involvement in the previous operation in which several people belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) died in encounters over their alleged illegal activities.
The MQM publicly rejected the appointment of this police officer as it did in the case of Suddle as the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Sindh. The information contained in the documents, the officer claimed, was just a small fraction of the illegal activities of the troublemakers. It was really revealing and shocking for ordinary souls.
The officer said that recording of landline and cell phones of the suspected lot would have to be done for the success of the operation but the police were in no position to do so.He said that not only the assistance of the ISI but also the help of the Military Intelligence and the Karachi Corps Headquarters would be exceedingly necessary and vital in the operation as before.
The official said no doubt the terrorists were well armed and had large arsenals that they had assembled over the past decade, it was not a big deal to crack down on them if there were complete preparations and clarity of mind as to what was to be achieved.
He said mere moving of Suddle to Sindh and some other changes made at the senior level in the provincial police, especially Karachi, had sent an unambiguous message across the board that illegal activities would have to be ceased forthwith or these would be curbed with force. These changes have instantly resulted in reduction in street crimes, including the snatching of mobile phones, he added. Another official said that the Karachi Police would now no longer sit silently waiting for all the main players of the government, including the intelligence agencies, to come out with their opinion that the troublemakers had to be dealt with severely in Karachi before it was too late.
The first step that Suddle has started taking is to inculcate confidence in the police force and tell them that he means business. The recent pay raise given to policemen and provision of other facilities was part of this policy. While Suddle has the track record of taking on the criminals in a decisive way, he doesn't spare policemen who show laxity and negligence.
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