Eastern district of Karachi has become hub of street crimes

Aftab Jalalee
Crime Reporter
KARACHI: Karachi has become a city of fear, the rule of unrest continues, thousands of people have been robbed at the beginning of the new year, people are forced to stumble for safety.
In the incident, the styles of the robbers changed but the policing was the same, DSP, SSP and other officers became uncrowned kings.
After the incident, the accused was identified, but the law did not act.
Taking motorcycles, mobile phones, cash, and killing people during incidents have become commonplace in Karachi. In the year 2022, more than 82 thousand 700 incidents have taken place in different areas of Karachi. At the beginning of the year 2023, more than 1,000 people have lost their motorcycles, cars, mobile phones, cash and other valuables. It has been admitted by Karachi police that 150 incidents have been reported in 24 hours, 46 incidents of street crimes in Eastern District, 41 incidents in the Central District, 21 incidents in Korangi and 15 incidents in Western District. In these incidents, citizens lost 70 mobile phones, 4 vehicles, 61 motorcycles and other valuables have been lost.
In Ayub Goth area of ​​Sohrab Goth police station of Karachi East, robbers broke the locks of Sultan Nunari’s shop and took away 1.75 million rupees in cash and mobile phones. But the arrest has not been made for 6 days only because the police officers are unable to protect the complainant. According to the complainant, now the accused is on the run, the complainant told that he had requested AIG East Javed Alam Odhu and SSP Abdul Rahim Shirazi that the accused involved in the incident has been 100% identified and the police should act on the confidential informant of complainant so that they can avoid any trouble in the future, but the custodians of the said law, avoided to act accordingly. The said complainant was a victim of robbery along with his son some time ago but he had given up.
Karachi Police and peace-keeping organizations should provide security to the public and act on secret identification and provide protection to the victims including children so that after the incident the victims fear to save their lives instead of getting back their looted valuables.