Despite the prevailing security threats, the walk-through gates installed at the entrance of Karachi’s city courts remain dysfunctional.
According to reports, the alarm of the gate stays silent whenever any person passes through it as a result of which judges, lawyers and litigants are facing security concerns. Two walk-through gates are also installed at the entry point of district west’s court but no connection has been provided to them.
Lawyers around the country went on a strike after a horrific suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital that killed 72 people including many of their colleagues.
The security situation in Balochistan is already murky and confused. The province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has major oil and gas resources but is afflicted by militancy, sectarian violence and a separatist insurgency.
It is also the site of China’s ambitious $46 billion infrastructure project linking its western province of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea via Pakistan. Pakistan’s army said on Monday that the Quetta attack was aimed at targeting the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
