Reports on terror financing: Task Force to conduct proceedings on daily basis

25 Jun, 2015

In view of the observations raised by Pakistan Rangers Sindh in the Apex Committee about financing of terrorists through different sources including Bhatta collection etc, the Government of Sindh has constituted a Committee/ Task Force under the chairmanship of former justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai with a former District & Session Judge Arjun Ram K. Talreja and Mukhtiar Hussain Soomro, Home Secretary Sindh, as its members.
The Terms of Reference of the Committee are to examine the report of Pakistan Rangers Sindh and gather evidences about various modes of terrorist financing, to fix responsibilities in the light of findings and to recommend pre-emptive, preventive and cognitive measures to Government of Sindh to curb such unlawful practices. Further, the Government of Sindh has also ordered a Judicial Inquiry to be conducted by former judge Ghulam Sarwar Korai and Arjun Ram K. Talreja into the incident of scuffles and firing inside the Police Station Mominabad, Karachi.
The first meeting of the Committee/ Task Force was held in the New Sindh Assembly Building on Wednesday under the Chairmanship of Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai which was attended by Arjun Ram K. Talreja and Mukhtiar Hussain Soomro, and Shahab Qamar Ansari, Registrar Committee/ Task Force. During the meeting it was decided that the information/evidence from concerned departments/agencies and general public related to above mentioned matters may be solicited through public notices to be published in the leading newspapers. It was also decided that the meetings of the Committee/ Task Force will be held daily to expedite the findings and formulate recommendations for the Government of Sindh.

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