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PM orders cancellation of 36,000 weapon licenses

June 23, 2013

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Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif on Saturday ordered cancellation of nearly 36,000 weapon licenses issued in the last government’s tenure, to overcome the law and order situation.
The decision was taken at a meeting held on police reforms. The meeting was jointly presided by Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif.
Matters relating to law and order‚ strategy to control crimes‚ and reforms in police were discussed in the meeting.
According to the prime minister, curbing licenses and mobilising police force would help the current law and order situation in the country.
The premier took part in an aerial surveillance with the CM prior to a briefing with police officials regarding police weapons.
In the same briefing, the PM spoke of plans to equip the police force better and hire new judges in the future.
Earlier, to help the security situation, additional 500 sub-inspectors were hired in Punjab.

6 COMMENTS

Pakistani June 23, 2013 at 09:35

What an assumption.How will this step help overcome the law and order situation?Anybody please help me understand.Where are those 36000 now unlicensed weapons.Will they be confiscated?
This should give us a fare idea of the way Nawaz Sharif thinks if at all he does.
- sahmed June 23, 2013 at 15:50
  
  He cannot think, because he lost his brains when Musharaf parcelled him to Saudi Arabia. But he is trying and you need to support him. He has too much on his plate, prolonged load shedding, high unemployment, high illetracy and government has no money and he and his brother do not want to bring their money kept very safely in london.
ishrat salim June 23, 2013 at 20:15

there are more of un-licensed arms than licensed…..killers and terrorists do not use licensed arms….how dumb of these politicians…..
- sahmed June 23, 2013 at 20:43
  
  and they dont stand in a line to hand over their weapons.
Mohammed June 23, 2013 at 21:27

This is an attempt to make money for PML lawmakers. In a years time it will announced that there will be an issue of licenses again and the PML lawmakers will then take their cut.
Ajmal June 24, 2013 at 10:22

He is talking about MOI licences becoz in Punjab they were in force and they issued legal licences( i am joking) actually this would just b a drama many of us will go to courts and then it will b stopped secondly he knows PPPP issued lot of PB licences to their people actually he want to unarm these people.