Under the wisdom and untiring efforts of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the National Action Plan (NAP) has yielded positive results as it not only makes significant decline in terrorists activities but also brings down the crime rate graph.
According to statistics issued by the IGP Office, by implementing the NAP, a significant decrease was observed in the crime rate during last 10 months as compared to the same period in the previous year 2014 while murder cases have been decreased to 27 percent in this period.
Spokesman for the Punjab government Zaeem Hussain Qadri said: “The NAP envisaged to purge Pakistan from fissiparous forces engaged in weakening roots of the state has yielded desired results.”
Talking to APP, he said it was because of overwhelming consensus among political leadership who were convinced on a single point to weed out extremism and terrorism. They thought until and unless the scourge of terrorism was eliminated, the country could not make commendable progress, he added.
He said the PML-N government under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif through its well-designed NAP took strict action against terrorists and their facilitators, and the situation was under control now.
The spokesman said, the prime minister held day and night meetings with the stakeholders and made peace in the country possible. “The people have taken a sigh of relief and life has returned to normalcy in strife-torn Karachi following strict implementation of the National Action Plan,” Zaeem added.
He said Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif had put in place all effective measures for mobilising all-out resources to make the NAP a complete success.
“Owing to stern implementation of the NAP, rate of terrorist activities in the Punjab is on the lowest level,” he added.
Quoting figures, the spokesman said Punjab police and other law enforcement agencies during search operations and crackdowns conducted in various parts of the province had rounded up as many as 33,000 people with dubious activities and huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered.
The Punjab police had, under the NAP, conducted 33,772 search operations during the last 10 months in which 994,118 people had been investigated whereas cases had also been registered against 980 people on violation of the Foreign Act.
However, the police had also arrested 40 terrorists and kept 69 outlaws under custody during this period. As many as,6,162 general hold ups were conducted in which 24,436 suspects had been arrested whereas 122,800 vehicles had been impounded over tinted glasses and inappropriate number plates.
On the violation of the NAP regarding renting houses, 7,328 cases had been registered, and 11,036 people had also been arrested while 1,754 were convicted by courts. Similarly, 2,851 cases on display of weapons and 2,611 cases of having illicit weapons had been registered.
On the publication of hatred material, 547 cases were registered and 580 people were arrested while 35 of them were sentenced by courts.
As a result of implementation of the NAP, murder cases have been minimised to 3,844 from 5,282, crime against person cases diminished to 43,437 as compared to year 2014 in which 48,759 cases were reported.
Abduction for ransom cases reduced to 71 from 91, dacoity incidents minimised to 1,286 from 1,950 in 2014 and the other crimes have also been considerably decreased due to effective implementation of the NAP in Punjab.
PML-N Punjab President Raja Ashfaq Sarwar said with a success of the National Action Plan and due to prudent economic policies of the present government, economic indicators were showing upward trend, adding that heavy investments were pouring in and renowned international companies were setting up their industries especially in the Punjab.
Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said law enforcement agencies had completed search operations in hostels and universities following a zero tolerance policy against terrorism.
