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Over 43,000 street crime incidents reported in Karachi this year

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Karachi

KARACHI: The Karachi continues to face alarming levels of street crime, with 43,419 incidents reported in the first eight months of 2025. According to police data, 60 citizens lost their lives and 216 others were injured while resisting robberies. However, official records list the death toll at 53 fatalities in such incidents. Between January and … Read more

Karachi reports over 35,000 street crime cases in six months

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Karachi

KARACHI: The city of Karachi has witnessed a sharp rise in crime during the first six months of 2025, with over 35,000 incidents of murder, street crime, robbery, and extortion reported, leaving citizens at the mercy of armed criminals and extortionists. According to the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC): 8,588 mobile phones were snatched at gunpoint, … Read more

Street crime claims 49 lives in Karachi in first half of 2025

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Street crime

KARACHI: The Karachi’s streets turned deadly in the first six months of 2025, as 49 citizens were killed in robbery-related incidents, official figures reveal. In January, five people were shot dead during robbery attempts following resistance. February witnessed the highest surge in violence at that point, with 10 individuals falling victim to street criminals’ bullets. … Read more

Street crime ratio to be dropped very soon : Governor Sindh  

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Street crime

KARACHI:  Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori has expressed hope that street crime will be dropped soon in the city soon.

Additional Inspector General Imran Yaqoob Minhas met Kamran Tessori at the Governor House, in which the role of the police in maintaining law and order was discussed, while the elimination of street crime in the city and other issues were also discussed.

On this occasion, Kamran Tessori said that the protection of people’s life and property is the first priority of the government. He said the Sindh government is making efforts to eliminate street crime and there will be a clear reduction in street crime very soon.

Governor Sindh said that surveillance cameras are of primary importance in crime prevention, people-friendly police behavior is sure to prevent crime and all institutions need to have coordinated and effective communication.

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CM directed IG police to control street crime

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Karachi: More than 100 citizens lost lives in first 9 months of 2024
  • CM Sindh expressed concern over rising street crime.
  • He also warned police station they would be held accountable.
  • Chief Minister directed IG Police to propose a draft law.

KARACHI:  Caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (Retd) Maqbool Baqar during a meeting with the Inspector General of Police directed him to take measures to control kidnapping for ransom in the katcha area and street crime in Karachi.

He also made it clear that the concerned police stations would be held responsible if any such incident were to occur in their jurisdiction.

The Chief Minister expressed concern over the rising street crime in the city. He stated that the citizens are losing confidence as they don’t feel safe on the roads and in open areas. He also warned the police station that they would be held accountable if any street crime occurred within their jurisdiction.

Justice Baqar said he has repeatedly directed the police to ensure police patrolling but those instructions have not been compiled in letter and spirit. At this, the IG police said that the orders of police patrolling had been complied with. He added that the police stations and their mobiles have been properly equipped with wireless stations and upgradation of police stations was being made.

He said that kidnapping for ransom has again started taking place in katcha area of the Larkana and Sukkur divisions. “I would not tolerate rising up of such a heinous crime in the katcha area,” he said and directed the Ig police to ensure the safe and secure recovery of the kidnapped persons and continue to crack down against the bandits.

Tagging of repeat criminals: The Chief Minister and the Inspector General of Police discussion regarding the tagging of repeat criminals to monitor their movements. It was proposed that a bracelet with a chip would be worn to the criminals involved in their second or third offense.

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Caretaker Sindh Govt decides to eliminate street crime

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46 Karachi residents killed on robbery resistance in 2025
  • Cabinet decided to launch operation against dacoits.
  • Home minister Sindh was directed to chalk out a plan.
  • Cabinet expressed satisfaction over Sindh has become polio free.

KARACHI: Caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqar presiding over an introductory meeting of his caretaker cabinet decided to take strict measures to control law & order, notably eliminating dacoits in the Katcha area and street crime in Karachi.

At the outset, the caretaker chief minister said that the cabinet meeting was held as an introductory and aimed at setting an agenda for good governance, service to the people, and supporting the election commission of Pakistan for carrying out their work.

Justice Baqar said that in the aftermath of the floods, poverty has increased manifold in the province. He added that therefore there was a dire need to take concrete measures to alleviate poverty.  The CM said that the caretaker government is apolitical, and it was for all irrespective of their socio-political identification or affiliation.

Justice Baqar said that there was a need of promoting enter-faith harmony in the province. He added that people of different faith and beliefs have lived together on this land, but anti-state elements were trying to create law and order by igniting religious hatred and we must stop it.   It was pointed out that the dacoits have developed sway in the katcha area, therefore the cabinet decided to launch an operation against the dacoits.

The home minister was directed to chalk out a plan in consultation with the police and other law enforcement agencies so that a well-coordinated clean-up operation against the dacoits could be launched.

The cabinet members pointed out that due to some ongoing development works in the city traffic jam issues crop up during the peak hours, therefore the traffic police was directed to manage traffic flow properly. It was pointed out that the people from far-flung areas visit government offices, in Karachi and in their respective districts where their problems were not being resolved.

Chief Minister directed all the ministers, particularly of the Revenue, Local Government, Police, and Health to direct their respective departments to make their offices functional and public-oriented everywhere.

The cabinet expressed satisfaction that Sindh has become polio free from the last two years but its virus was still alive in different areas.

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Sindh apex committee decides to crush terrorists, street criminals  

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Sindh apex
  • CM said that the CPLC reported 85,000 cases of street crime in 2022.
  • 7000 street crime cases were happening every month in the city.
  • Murad Ali Shah directed for decisive operation against criminals.

KARACHI: The Apex Committee in its 28th meeting held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah at CM House assessed the recent uprising in terrorism wave in the country and evaluated overall intelligence reports presented by the different agencies and decided to crush every kind of threat, including terrorism, drug peddling, street crime, and dacoits in Katcha area through an intelligence-based well-coordinated vigorous targeted operation.

The CM also decided that the three IGPs – Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan would sit together, and chalk out a complete plan to launch an operation against the dacoits in the katcha area for which all the law enforcement agencies would support them. “In want, the operation against the bandits must be made a decisive and cleansing operation once and for all,” the CM said categorically.

The meeting was attended by provincial ministers, Naasir Shah, Sharjeel Memon, Murtaza Wahab, Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar, DG Rangers Maj Gen Azhar Waqas, IG Police Ghulam Nabi Memon, provincial heads of Intelligence agencies and other concerned.

The CM said that the CPLC reported 85,000 cases [of street crime] during 2022 and asked the IG Police Ghulam Nabi to brief the meeting. The IG said that four different crimes such as bike snatching, car snatching, mobile snatching, and robberies were constituting `street crime’. He added that 85,000 cases of street crime in the year 2022 meant 7000 cases were happening every month in the city. “If 7000 cases are divided in a month or with 30.5 days it would come to 229 cases per day.

Similarly, 229 or 230 cases per day are divided with 108 police stations in the city the crime per police station per day would come to 2.1 cases,” he said and went on to say that 50 percent of the total street crime cases happened to be of bike snatching – meant one street crime happened to be taking place in the city every day.

Ghulam nabi Memon told the meeting that during 2022 the police performed 2258 encounters, busted 1259 gangs, arrested 16621 dacoits/terrorists, and killed 204.

The CM directed the law department to expedite the process.

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Karachi street crime: JI to protest against the surge

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JI protest Karachi

JI to hold protest in Karachi today at 20 locations Hafiz Naeem said that the crime rate has been increasing He said that PPP has brought the city to a bottleneck KARACHI: Slamming the soaring street crimes in the metropolitan city, President Jamat-e-Islami (JI) Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman announced to hold protest in the city … Read more

Karachi police chief claims crime rate has reduced

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Karachi crime

KARACHI: Additional Inspector General (AIG) Javed Alam Odho has urged businessmen and industrialists to set up CCTV cameras across the city and help the police in fighting crime. The Karachi police visited the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at the invitation of Zubair Motiwala, Javed Jaskani, Younis Memon, Majeed Memon, and other businessmen … Read more

Taking crime for granted

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The street crime in Karachi has reached ugly proportions. But he big question is, just what is the Sindh government doing to control the worsening situation except for giving lame excuses or resorting to blame-game.  Quite regretfully, no concrete measures seem to be in place anywhere, neither are there any efforts to engage the youth … Read more

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