Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro has assured business community that after receiving Issani commission report the government would finalise its strategy to compensate all those who had suffered losses during violence erupted after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
He gave this assurance while talking to representatives of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Site Association of Industry (SAI), Federal B Area Association of Trade and Industry (FBAATI), Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (Kati), North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry (NKATI), Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI).
Sources quoted the caretaker prime minister as saying that the government has already established a commission to ascertain actual losses and prepare a comprehensive report on it. Mohammadmian Soomro said that the commission has been given a task to submit its report on or before February 2, 2008.
The caretaker prime minister advised business community and others to cooperate with the commission and provide details of losses on or before January 21, 2008 to help the commission to finalise its report earlier. He said that the government has already decided to pay compensation to families of those who lost their life during these incidents.
Mohammadmian Soomro said that the government was determined to improve security arrangements in the country in general and in industrial areas in particular so that such incidents do not take place in future. Working capability of law enforcing agencies would also be improved, he added.
Expressing concern over mass scale looting and burning of property after the incident of December 27, 2007, he said that unprecedented behaviour was exhibited largely by those who had no sympathy for life and property.
Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan, caretaker chief minister Sindh former justice Abdul Qadir Halepota, Governor State Bank Dr Shamshad Akhtar, Inspector General Police, Home Minister and secretary, Director General Rangers, President KCCI Shamim Ahmed Shamsi, Chairman Kati Shaikh Fazal-e-Jalil, Chairman FBAATI Idrees Gigi, Patron-in-chief NKATI Captain Moiz Khan, Chairman Kite Abdul Haseeb Khan and other high officials and business community representatives were present in the meeting.