Rangers’ prosecutors

This refers to the news report, ‘Rangers demand own police stations in Karachi’ (March 8). Unfortunately, the Public Prosecution Department in Sindh has been put on the back burner by elected and unelected governments alike, with an avowed objective to emasculate prosecutors by putting them under the subordination of retired judges who are appointed as law secretary, and private lawyers as prosecutor general and advocate general. As a result, this department has remained in the skeleton form since 1938 when the law department manuals were framed.

The Sindh Prosecution Department had framed its Departmental Rules in 2006, but they were abolished. In 2015, it framed the rules afresh, which have not been approved by the Sindh Public Service Commission yet. The irony is that the role of prosecutors has always been discussed in courts and in Apex Committee meetings but it has never been attended by any prosecutor. The Rangers should be vested with policing and prosecution powers because the Sindh government has not devised its service structure, promotion policy, etc so far.

Fayazul Karim Memon

Karachi