Rampaging robbers

Dacoits and armed robbers proceed to function with brazen impunity and wreak havoc on the streets of Karachi, the place evidently the regulation of the jungle now prevails. In three separate incidents that occurred on the identical day, three individuals had been shot at and wounded by robbers over resistance. The incidents occurred in low-income neighbourhood however no place is left secure from the phobia that these criminals have evoked among the many plenty.

Depleting socio-economic circumstances coupled with excessive inflation have performed an enormous consider forcing delinquents to take up arms and resort to robbing and looting to earn cash. Now, with the federal government bowing to IMF calls for and costs of important commodities anticipated to additional rise considerably, the scenario will grow to be worse. The debilitating impact of the financial disaster has taken its toll and reduction from the federal government stays a hole promise. The least that may be achieved is to take care of regulation and order by means of regulation enforcement. However right here evidently even the police are helpless in opposition to these rampaging robbers. A couple of days prior, an on-duty cop was robbed at gunpoint outdoors the Mobina City police station in Karachi. The truth that greater than 7,000 incidents had been reported in simply the primary month of 2023 reveals the utter failure of native police and the shortage of concern from greater officers. This lack of concern partially stems from the truth that these officers stay past the affected inhabitants by way of inflation and lots of of them have guards for defense. Alternatively, the motion of frequent residents, particularly ladies, stays restricted as a consequence of worry of getting robbed.

The least the federal government can do is alert and empower native regulation enforcement businesses to take care of the exacerbating disaster. Within the meantime, residents are suggested to indicate no resistance to remorseless robbers, as life is extra essential than valuables.

Printed in The Categorical Tribune, February 16^th, 2023.

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