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SC snubs Sindh AG over reply on killings
A five-member bench of the Supreme Court Karachi Registry on Wednesday reprimanded Sindh Advocate-General Fatah Malik on his reply to a court’s query about the death toll in Karachi to which the latter had sarcastically stated that today’s score as six.
The reply did not go well with the apex court and Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani angrily questioned the AG if the people’s death is a match scoring — whether fours and sixers were being hit here?
The top court also observed that the law enforcement agencies’ personnel in Sindh were operating at the behest of politicians and the officials were more loyal to political parties than to their own institution.
A five-member larger bench headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, and including Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Justice Amir Hani Muslim and Justice Gulzar Ahmed heard the Karachi law and order case.
Justice Jamali said the issue of extortion was so prevalent that groups have divided areas amongst themselves and remarked that elected representatives and ministers facilitate the issuing of arms licences in order to increase their votebank and therefore engage in corruption.
He further said that there was barely an industrialist or businessman in the city who did not pay extortion money to remain safe and continue his business activity and asserted that there did not run writ of the government in the city.
Earlier on Tuesday, the bench had rejected the Sindh government’s progress report on implementation of the apex court’s order in the suo motu case on Karachi killings.
The hearing was adjourned till Thursday (today).
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