KARACHI: To record their protest over rising street crimes and deteriorating law and order situation in the city, All Karachi Tajir Ittehad (AKTI) on Wednesday announced to stage a sit-in outside Chief Minister House next week.
Chairman AKTI Atiq Mir said the provincial government has failed to protect the lives and properties of the masses. Detailing the program of the sit-in, he said protest rallies from across the city, will observe a sit-in outside the Sindh Chief Minister’s House on March 8.
“The government should provide security to the business community of the port city as street crimes are on the rise,” he said and warned that the business community would not pay their taxes if a business-friendly atmosphere was not provided to them.
Last month The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee released statistics of street crime committed in Karachi over the past 13 months — from January 2021 to January 2022 — and it shows no improvement in the situation.
A total of 240 cars were snatched at gunpoint across the city from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021, according to the CPLC’s stats. Moreover, 16 more were snatched in just 31 days of the New Year. Similarly, 1,854 cars were also stolen last year, while 184 more were stolen last month.
A total of 4,453 motorbikes were snatched at gunpoint in 2021, while 419 more this January. Similarly, 46,388 motorbikes were also stolen from different parts of the city last year, while 3,908 more last month.
The CPLC data also shows that 25,188 mobile phones were snatched in the city from January 2021 to December 2021, while 2,499 more in January 2022.
A total of 16 cases of kidnappings for ransom were registered last year and one last month, while 23 cases of extortion were reported in 2021 and one this January.
Moreover, 482 incidents of homicide occurred last year and 44 last month, while three bank robberies were committed in 2021 but no such incident took place in January 2022.
Unfortunately, the recovery ratio of the robbed cars and motorcycles worth billions of rupees is very low, with only 528 four-wheelers being recovered by the police in 2021 and 87 in January 2022, while only 2,993 two-wheelers were recovered last year and 319 last month.
