KARACHI: The commercial capital of Pakistan, Karachi, has been ranked at 103 on the World Crime Index, improving its standing by ten places since January 2020 and 32 places since mid-2019.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah stated this while chairing a top-level meeting at the CM House to review the law and order of the entire province.
The World Crime Index surveys the rate of criminal activities in 396 cities around the world. In 2015, Karachi’s position on the index was 10th, in 2016 on 26th, in 2017 on 47th, 2018 50th, 2019 71st, while now in October, 2020 Karachi stands at 103.
Meanwhile, South Africa’s Cape Town was at 19th place, Mexico City on 29th, Kuala Lumpur on 38th, Houston on 50th, while the ranking of Delhi is 71st. First is Caracas, while Qatar is in the last position.
In this regard, the Sindh Chief Minister said that Karachi could be made a safer place by implementing the “Safe City project” envisaging comprehensive real-time electronic surveillance of the city through a network of 10,000 high-powered cameras.
Murad Ali Shah said that initially an amount of Rs 10 billion had been earmarked for the project as later on its cost escalated to Rs 20 billion.
