The members of Sindh assembly are demanding the same.
Lawmakers want end to political meddling in police dept | DAWN.COM
**KARACHI: Members of the Sindh Assembly demanded on Monday an immediate end to political interference in the transfers and postings in the police department and stressed the need for tenure posting.
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The demand came during the Sindh Assembly session when the house initiated a general discussion on the law and order situation in the province on a motion moved by Law Minister Ayaz Soomro.
Sardar Jam Tamachi of the Pakistan People’s Party observed that no one could deny that the situation in Karachi was quite serious.
Tracing the history of deterioration in the system, he said since 1985 when new districts were carved out as fiefdoms to influential people, where postings of officials, especifically those of the police, were made on their choice.** But now the situation called for a pledge not to make political interference at least in the police and education departments and all postings be made on merit and the officials be given a free hand with tenure postings otherwise the system would further deteriorated, he observed.**
Muhammad Anwar Mahar of the PPP said that progress could not be possible without peace and protection of life.
He said without ensuring justice and elimination of corruption the situation could not improve.
He also called for providing better wages and facilities to the police.
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**Minister Sassui Palejo said the law and order situation was not restricted to Lyari alone and similar conditions prevailed in other parts of the city also.
Therefore, she said, people asked them that why the operation was being carried out only in Lyari and why its parameter was not being expanded to criminals in other areas.**
Manzar Imam of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement said that why Karachi and other towns of the province were being targeted where people were being kidnapped for ransom and those who failed to pay ransom were being killed.
**He referred to the localities of Kati Pahari, Banaras Colony in Orangi and asked the authorities that which elements were active there and who had turned those localities into killing fields.
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He warned of a conspiracy to trigger sectarian riots and said that the same had been averted due to efforts of the MQM and PPP leaderships.
He said his elders had selected Sindh as their permanent abode like old Sindhis, and had come here to live and die.
Tahir Qureshi of the MQM said it was not an operation in Lyari but a war where criminals were using heavy weapons, firing rockets and throwing hand-grenades at law-enforcement personnel.
Speaker Nisar Khuhro put off further discussion on law and order till Thursday.