The two-member monitoring committee constituted by the Supreme Court ordered Sindh Inspector General (IG) of Police Wajid Durrani on Wednesday to submit material reports on law and order in Karachi. The committee consists of Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, senior SC judges and members of the five-member larger bench that reserved the verdict in a suo motu notice of the violence and targeted killings in Karachi.
On Tuesday, the committee had expressed dissatisfaction with the reports submitted by the Karachi Police in compliance with the interim order of the SC larger bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Sindh Advocate General Fatah Malak, IGP Wajid Durani, AIG Karachi Saud Mirza and all three DIGs of Karachi appeared before the committee on notice on Wednesday. Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali said the report submitted by the police was about minor offenses, but the report required by the court needed to be on the action taken against criminals, target killers and extortionists that had destroyed peace in Karachi.
The IGP requested additional time to submission the required data. The IGP said police had arrested 15 target killers and investigations were underway. The committee said the extortionist mafia was still active in Karachi. The committee later gave the IGP until September 26 to submit the detailed police reports, as ordered by the larger bench during the suo motu hearings.
