Interior Ministry has directed Sindh Rangers to assist the Police in maintaining peace on main highways and take active part with police in flushing out the dacoits and criminal elements in a grand operation along the main highways and the Katcha areas if interior Sindh.
In the backdrop of federal government's directives, Sindh Rangers along with Police will formulate a joint viable strategy to ensure peace at National Highway and Indus Highway and main roads, and insulate them from the scourge of looting spree.
In this regard, Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) Director General Major General Liaqat Ali has issued necessary directives to the concerned Sindh Rangers officials to conduct extensive patrolling and establish check-posts at vulnerable points to be manned round the clock all along the Indus and National highways plus the main roads linking with Larkana, Shikarpur and Jacobabad. These measures are aimed at protecting passengers and goods vehicles plying on these highways, and to take punitive measures against the highway dacoits who tend to kill innocent passengers.
Furthermore, the DG Sindh Rangers has issued instructions that all possible assistance and help should be provided to police in a grand operation in the Katcha areas of interior Sindh.
The specialised Anti-Dacoit Unit of Rangers has been dispatched to the said areas, entrusted with the task to tighten the noose around the potential dacoits and criminal elements, and eliminate them in the aforesaid areas. It is pertinent to mention that this force in 1980 and 1990 had launched successful operation against the dacoits and proved their mettle.
DG Rangers has called upon the people living all along the highways and in Katcha areas to extend all possible cooperation with the law enforcement agencies to eliminate the menace of dacoities and lawlessness and to put their areas on path to peace and progress.
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