KARACHI:
The Sindh government has cancelled nearly 600,000 arms licences and decided to launch a ‘deweaponisation’ drive for voluntary surrender of illegal weapons across the province, Thursday.
Officials said that the government cancelled all those licences whose holders had neither submitted their documents for verification, nor had they applied for computerised licences since October 2013.
The home department officials said the apex committee, which executes and oversees ongoing targeted operations in the city, was recently informed that 1,057,456 manual licences had been issued in Sindh when the government decided to computerise them.
Since October 1, 2013, the deadline for the surrender of manual arms licences has been extended several times and the last such deadline expired on May 19, 2015, according to the officials.