Underpass incident; Karachi’s infrastructure has become a booty for drug addicts

Karachi: The infrastructure worth billions of rupees being built in Karachi with loans from international financial institutions has become a booty for drug addicts and waste pickers.

Police Rangers along with other law enforcement agencies, City Wardens, Sindh Government including KMC are helpless in the face of the network of drug addicts and thieves, the invasion of infrastructure of Karachi by drug addicts and thieves. Five lakh drug addicts, street Around 30,000 junkies sitting on the street and the negligence of the relevant departments have made Karachi hollow.

Urban infrastructure is being systematically damaged in Karachi, after removing the protective walls of the overpasses, bridges, sewer covers, now it is the turn of the underpasses.

In Nazimabad, three of the four ship-sized signboards of the underpass attributed to Mohsin Bhopali were stolen from under the noses of the MC and the police, and the fourth board caused the death of a citizen due to the handiwork of urban thieves and thieves. went.

Reacting, the citizens said that residents of residential areas have been fed up with drug addicts and garbage pickers for decades. Stolen gas meters, pipes, drainage pipes, AC outers, vehicle batteries are common. Even the urban infrastructure is no longer safe. It is surprising that the urban infrastructure is disappearing from the main passages of the city, roads, bridges and underpasses where police rangers vehicles pass all the time and security cameras are installed. Why no steps have been taken at the government level to stop it.

Citizens said that the network of junkyards across the city is active with the connivance of thieves. Junkyard shops are open in places where they buy stolen goods and dispose of them without the help of thieves and drug addicts. Cannot dispose of equipment.

He said that it is necessary that the law and related institutions should be put into action immediately to prevent these organized thefts and without waiting for more casualties, drug sales along with the junk shops established in the city including Nazimabad should be stopped. The bases should also be cracked down on.

Citizens say that Karachi’s infrastructure worth billions of rupees is being sold by thieves and drug addicts in the form of scraps, which is a question mark on the efficiency of the government and law enforcement agencies.

Big infrastructure projects are also under the attack of thieves

Apart from this, the big infrastructure projects being built in Karachi are also under the attack of thieves. Security has been increased due to the theft of construction materials, especially iron and construction tools and machinery, of the Red Line project constructed on University Road from Sabzi Mandi.

According to social worker and law expert Rana Asif, the threat posed to the infrastructure and urban lifestyle of Karachi by drug addicts and thieves has increased. Projects are constructed with loans, the interest of which is paid by the public, and the cost of additional security cameras and vehicles to protect the projects increases the cost and speed of the projects.

Rana Asif said that in this regard, the performance of the Sindh government and related institutions, police, rangers, other law enforcement agencies and KMC is deplorable. Earlier, the security grill of the founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam’s shrine was also stolen. Registered in the police station. He said drug addicts and Afghan waste pickers are selling Karachi’s infrastructure to scrappers who sell it as scrap to big dealers and finally melt it down and sell it at many times higher price.

He said that there are an estimated 500,000 drug addicts in Karachi who are stealing and selling private property and urban infrastructure to meet the demand for drugs. Involved in thefts. There is a need to open large-scale centers and campaigns for the rehabilitation of drug addicts.

Similarly, after the establishment of an institution like Solid Waste Management, the Afghans who pick garbage from the city should also be wiped out because these people are also involved in making the city ugly by spreading garbage along with thefts.

These thieves made the Sadar parking plaza a ruin, in the same way, thousands of lights, cameras and models of Dyna Saris in Bagh Ibn Qasim were also disappeared. He said that there is a network of 30,000 scoundrels in Karachi who are involved in selling the city’s infrastructure and stolen goods as scrap, against whom the law must be brought into action.