Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has offered to deploy more Rangers personnel in Karachi to get a handle on the rising number of street crimes in Karachi.
In a press conference, Rashid said that the ministry could sign off on the deployment of more personnel from the paramilitary force in the city, even at police stations.
"If [Sindh] Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah asks us for any assistance, we are willing to provide it,” he said.
In response to a question, he further said the situation in Karachi was not good.
"The situation that I saw in Karachi yesterday cannot be expressed in words … It seems as if there is no law [and order] in Karachi and this could have adverse consequences.”
Rashid’s offer for increasing Rangers’ troops in Karachi comes after Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MPA in the Sindh Assembly, Khurram Sher Zaman, wrote a letter to the interior minister, urging federal authorities to look into the important issue of rising street crime in Karachi and "take whatever appropriate measures are available to you as per the Constitution and law”.
