Mobile snatching, dacoity, extortion, kidnap for ransom has become very common in Karachi. Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) have failed to stop these crimes. Target killing in the metropolitan city is also going on which is also unstoppable. When target killers and murders do not kill anyone then no one is killed but police has done nothing in this regard.
Recently a friend of mine faced this menace; he was coming out from his office in Clifton near Boat Basin when mobile snatchers took away his mobile, cash, watch and credit cards. He went to Clifton Police Station near Park Towers to register a FIR. Police constable advised him to write an application in Urdu. It is good that Urdu is given preference but I hope that translator are present in police stations if anyone writes application in English so that he/she can translate it into Urdu.
My friend told me that policeman does not ask him about anything regarding mobile snatching incident. He even doesn’t bother to ask that how were the mobile snatchers looks, which mobile they took away, how much cash was in purse.
It is disappointing from police but very understandable in Karachi where police has shown in many cases that they are incompetent. I suggest IG Sindh Fayyaz Leghari to take notice of these issues and direct strict actions against all those police station which have failed to perform in recent years.
