ISLAMABAD: ‘Unnecessary’ police checkpoints are still in place in several areas of the federal capital despite the removal orders from Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed.
Earlier on December 18, the incumbent interior minister, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, directed the removal of all unnecessary policy checkpoints across Islamabad. “The residents will no longer face difficulties due to the checkpoints,” he added.
However, no action has been taken to remove the police checkpoints yet. Sources have informed that the federal police are harassing the citizens with their strange and unprofessional conduct.
The federal police allegedly threaten innocent people in order to extort money on one pretext or the other, and those who question police’s authority, they allegedly implicate them in false cases.
It has been witnessed that policemen in the name of snap check of vehicles park their mobile vans on roads and streets, especially at night, and stop people travelling on motorcycles or in cars.
People are being asked to show the papers of their vehicles and other documents. The federal police extort people on one pretext or another. Such incidents have become a matter of routine.
