Snatching, extortion, kidnapping, other crimes increase in Bin Qasim Industrial Area

KARACHI , A high Level delegation of Bin Qasim Association of Trade & Industry held a detailed meeting with Sindh Home Secretary R. S. Ahmed, Capital City Police Officer Fayyaz Laghari and other high officials to discuss increasing crimes in the area like street crimes, extortion, kidnappings etc.

The delegation was led by Mian Mohammad Ahmed, Patron-in-Chief/Founder President, Bin Qasim Association of Trade & Industry, Usman Ahmed, Founder Vice President, and Mr. Farhan Ansari, Chairman Law & Order committee, BQATI. TPO Bin Qasim Tanveer Odho was also present in the meeting. The delegation apprised the officials that gangs of miscreants on motorcycles are engaged in holding up of cars at gun point and snatching mobile phones, wallets, laptops and other valuables from the drivers and passengers. Their modus operandi is to follow cars and at an appropriate moment hold them up at gun point and take away whatever valuables these passengers have. These incidents have happened in an area starting from Quaidabad to Razaqabad as well as in Landhi Industrial area. These have become No Go areas for industrialist and common man. People are forced to pay Bhattas (extortion) to these gangsters. They carry out these activities in broad day light. A number of foreigners, Japanese, European, Chinese and other foreigners working in the area have suffered at the hands of the criminals.

A number of persons have been killed and injured by these criminals. Incidents of car snatching have increased, they told. The delegation suggested using Security Checkpoints in the problematic area between Quaidabad to T-Point of PQA & the internal link roads; Extensive patrolling by plain cloths police guards from Landhi to Memon Goth; Spot checking by uniformed security staff; Installation of Concealed CCTV cameras at key locations; Exclusive Police Mobiles & Police Guards for National Highway, which shoul! d not le ave the highway under any circumstances; Spot Checking by Police & CPLC etc. CCPO informed the delegation that Police will provide all the required support to the Industrialist of the area. CCPO also requested the delegation to report any crime in the area to TPO Bin Qasim who would be the contact person. The industrial Zone of Port Qasim is spread around 12,000 acres where around 50,000 work forces is employed. At a time when industrial production needs to be boosted to help improve the economy, incidents like these will act as a serious deterrent to investors local as well as foreign.


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