Sindh to revive border security force, says minister

SUKKUR: Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal on Tuesday said that the border security force would be revived in the province to check infiltration of terrorists from Mastung area of Balochistan into Sindh province.

He said this at a press conference at DIG’s office in Larkana. He was accompanied by the Inspector-General of Police, Ghulam Haider Jamali, Home Secretary and the DIGs and SSPs of Larkana and Sukkur regions.

The Home Minister said that the border security force which had been merged into Sindh Police would be re-activated and deployed in Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Kamber Shahdadkot and other districts of the border areas to control the entry of terrorists, militants and other criminal elements into Sindh.

He said that Sindh had enforced the National Action Plan in letter and spirit. It killed and apprehended terrorists, extortionists and other criminal elements in Karachi and established the writ of the law, he said. 

The minister said that the operation in Karachi would continue until the elimination of the last of the terrorists. Sohail Anwar Siyal applauded the role of the Chief of the Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif, and that of the Sindh government for bringing peace to Karachi and to the Sindh province, adding that credit went to both in this regard.

He disclosed that 55 seminaries out of 7,000 were involved in terrorism activities in Sindh, and the Sindh government had taken action against them.  He said that in future no Madressah could be set up without an NOC.

The Home Minister said that Sindh Police would establish 12 model police stations and facilitation centers in the province for improving police-public relations. The IGP of Sindh, Ghulam Haider Jamali, said on the occasion that the Sindh police had initiated an operation against bandits and other criminal elements. He claimed that the law and order situation in the province was much better than before, and the crime rate had gone down.

Earlier, Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal presided over a meeting with the police officers of Larkana and Sukkur regions. The DIG (Establishment) Sultan Khuwaja, the DIG of Sukkur, Azhar Rashid, the DIG of Larkana, Abdullah Shaikh, and the SSPs of the two regions were also present on the occasion.