Resolution calling for Rs5m in compensation for street crime victims submitted to PA secretariat

A resolution has been submitted to the secretariat of the Sindh Assembly, urging the provincial government to pay compensation of Rs5 million to the heirs of each citizen dying at the hands of street criminals in Karachi.

The resolution was submitted on Friday by an MPA from Karachi, Taha Ahmed Khan, who belongs to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan.

It lamented that over 50 people had lost their lives in various incidents of street crime since January 2024, saying a majority of them were the sole breadwinners of their families. The resolution urged that the Sindh government should also bear the educational expenses of the children of the deceased victims of street crimes in Karachi. It said that one of the eligible heirs of the victims of street crime in Karachi should also be offered government jobs.

The resolution noted that the state was under the solemn obligation of protecting the lives and belongings of the citizens, but the Sindh government had failed to discharge this binding constitutional duty.

The MQM MPA also demanded that the Safe City Project should immediately be rolled out in Karachi to develop a sophisticated and modern system of electronic surveillance to a keep check on the activities of criminals and robbers.

He said the government should take stern action against erring station house officers who failed to overcome street crime in their respective jurisdictions.

He said that police officers domiciled in Karachi should be deputed as SHOs at various police stations in the city as the non-local SHOs didn’t know the dynamics and ground realities of the areas of their responsibility.