• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Pakistan set to focus on deteriorating security situation in Karachi

Iran Press TV

Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:45PM GMT

Local government in Pakistan’s Sindh Province has decided to hold a nationwide security summit in a bid to review the ever-deteriorating security situation in the southwestern port city of Karachi.

Sindh's Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said during a provincial cabinet meeting that his administration would hold the event in the first week of July.

The politicians belonging to different political and religious parties are expected to put forward their proposals to improve security across the troubled city of nearly 18 million people.

Karachi, the capital of Sindh Province and the country's financial hub, saw its deadliest year in two decades in 2012, with around 2,000 people were killed in violence linked to ethnic and political tensions.

Meanwhile, separate incidents of violence have left at least seven people dead and injured several others in the different parts of the volatile city over the past 24 hours.

The local government has also decided to tighten the security at all the jails especially in Karachi and neighboring city of Hyderabad.

Karachi has experienced a fresh spate of violence and targeted killings over the past few months.

Sectarian, political and ethnic violence in Karachi has killed hundreds of people in Pakistan’s main commercial hub so far this year.

The developments also come weeks after Pakistan's top court ordered the government law enforcement agencies to take immediate action against pro-Taliban militants in the country's largest city.

The Supreme Court ordered the government in Sindh Province to take the issue of the presence of the Taliban in the city seriously.

Reports say thousands of pro-Taliban militants have made their way into the country's largest city and its commercial hub.

The city is home to numerous ethnic groups and has been hit by clashes between rival ethnic and political factions in the past two decades.

Thousands of people have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001 when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US on the so-called war against terrorism, according to local media.

Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.

JR/SS