Street crime in Karachi is a major growing problem of today. It is being followed by the youngsters as some sort of game to snatch things and disappear in few seconds, even the children of 13, 14 years are highly indulged in such activates. Now the question raises how these criminals are so assure of their selves at stealing so easily? They are not even near to be afraid of anything, they even murder people just for sake of some money. The fact is that they are provided with weapons and they feel themselves at power. There hits another question at the same time. Why the street crime is growing higher and why only in the slums or undeveloped areas? The main example is Lyari, Karachi. People are not safe even in day light to walk in street or leave their doors unlocked. These poor people are filled with the terror of losing their lives. The main cause of such incidents is two in the view of researchers. The burglars, the teenagers and young boys are drowned in the unconscious state of stealing at gunpoint and the main reason is “poverty” which is the highly rated crime activity of Pakistan these days, this poverty is leading the uneducated people to this shortcut of street crimes because they find it the easy way of earning money instead of dying from hunger and thrust. These crimes are not done individually but they are supported by a head which leads a gang of burglars and murderers and as it is an open reality to everyone that there is a nothing justice and the weapons being sold to anyone is not a big thing in this world of crime which deals with money, only money. Secondly there’s also the fault of media, as we see movies and serials are feeding the youth with the ideas of the heroic activates by showing the hero with such characteristics as exactly of a criminal.
These growing problems are taking control over peoples mind and nobody is safe even in this independent country. It is not only the case in Karachi but every city of Pakistan and moreover the world.
Abbas Hussain