As many as 18 terrorists have been executed while black warrants issued for the execution of four other terrorists have been stayed by courts under the National Action Plan (NAP).
This was disclosed in a joint presentation given to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah by Chief Secretary Siddique Memon, Home Secretary Mukhtiar Soomro and IG Ghulam Hyder Jamali on Saturday.
They said that under NAP various drastic measures have been taken. “Some 18 terrorists have been executed in different jails of the province while the courts have granted stay against four execution orders,” the chief secretary said.
The chief minister directed the chief secretary, advocate general and law secretary to follow these cases in the courts properly and get the stay vacated so that their execution could be carried out. The chief secretary also said that the Sindh government had recommended 74 cases for their trial in military court but the ministry of interior approved only three case, including attack on Rangers mobile in Sachal, blast and martyrdom of DSP Kamal Mangan and another case relating the blast and martyrdom of Kamal Mangan.
Replying to a question of chief minister, the home secretary said that presently “we have scrutinised 10 cases in our legal committee which has cleared eight cases which include the ones of attack on Justice Maqbool Baqar, NishterPark blast, attack on four policemen, attack on Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station and sectarian murder in New Karachi and five other connected cases.”
The chief minister directed Home Secretary Mukhtiar Soomro to scrutinise more cases because Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif had already ordered establishment of more military courts in Karachi.
Talking about the achievements made by Rangers from September 5, 2013, to August 17, 2015, the home secretary said they had conducted 5,867 operations in which over all arrests were 10,438, including 498 terrorists. They have killed over 490 target killers, arrested 341 bhatta collectors, got 50 hostages freed from the clutches of kidnappers. In different encounter, the Rangers killed 464 terrorists, recovered 7,787 weapons and 349,854 ammunition.
Talking about hate speeches, the chief secretary said that some 1,023 cases had been registered under Loudspeaker Act 813, 552 arrested and 810 were challaned.
Talking about police action in Lyri, the IG police said that 130 gangsters had been neutralised. “We have reduced social vice dens by 90 percent; highway dacoities/robberies reduced exceptionally. Only 19 highway dacoities were reported in 2015 while their figure stood at 68 in 2014.
He said the number of Madaris in Sindh were being re-verified through special branch. The exercise would be completed within a week. “Additionally, all the Madaris are being brought on digital map through geo-tagging. This exercise would also be completed within 15 days,” he said.
The chief minister directed the IG police to strengthen their coordination with Pakistan Rangers and secret agencies to comb out terrorists from this thickly populated city.