KARACHI: Director General Pakistan Rangers Sindh Maj. Gen. Muhammad Saeed has urged the business and industrial community to immediately inform Rangers about any extortion threat as soon as they receive it so that the culprits could be taken to task along with provision of security to the complainant at their business premises and homes but that complaint must be genuine. “If you don’t complain, we will not be able to help you”, he added.
Speaking at a meeting during his visit to the Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday, DG Rangers said, “With a small force of just 11,000 troops, we simply cannot make deployments outside every single shop but we will make sure that anyone receiving extortion threat gets immediate security.”
Chairman Businessmen Group (BMG) & Former President KCCI Siraj Kassam Teli, Vice Chairman BMG & Former President KCCI Haroon Farooki, President KCCI Muffasar Atta Malik, Senior Vice President KCCI Abdul Basit Abdul Razzak, Vice President KCCI Rehan Hanif, Former Presidents AQ Khalil & Shamim Ahmed Firpo, Chairman of Law & Order Sub-Committee Mansoor Ahmed Kadwani, Chairman of Special Committee for Small Traders Majeed Memon and others were present at the meeting.
Referring to recent hand grenade attack at Kharadar Cloth Market, DG Rangers said that nobody lodged any complaint about receiving threat calls from a particular gang which resulted in the said hand grenade attack. The victims themselves were responsible for the loss of life and injuries at Kharadar Cloth Market as nobody ever complained about the threats given on phone which was disclosed later after the attack, he added.
DG Ranger Muhammad Saeed pointed out that 104 Rangers troops have been martyred and hundreds were injured since September 2013 to protect the lives and properties of Karachiites. “Nobody acknowledges these sacrifices but a single failure, results in huge criticism towards Rangers officers who are working out of their skins and striving really hard to maintain peace and stability all over Karachi”, he added.
He was of the opinion that everyone has to play their due role in dealing with issues and problems in our society but unfortunately this was not happening as nobody is playing role for the ‘collective good’ which is constantly being ignored. “This is one of the major social weakness and we have to deal with it by contributing towards collective good whereas the differences of opinion amongst everyone must also be sorted out and bipartisan practices need to be encouraged, besides dealing with low tolerance”, he stressed, adding that Collective Good, Bipartisan practices and tolerance were more important than the economic stability as only those countries and cities have been growing exceptionally well who have all these three elements in their society.
