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CMC falls prey

to ministers'

indifference

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Indifferent attitude of Sindh provincial ministers and advisers has rendered the Crime Monitoring Cell (CMC) in the Chief Minister House totally "in-effective". It now serves as a sitting room for petty officials where they drink tea, gossip and then go back home.

When the attention of Mohammad Umer Sailya, a nominee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry was drawn to this pathetic state of affairs, he fully agreed that ministers and advisers have stopped taking interest and visiting the CMC.

Ministers, advisers, police officials and nominees of FPCCI were required to attend to public complaints and provide immediate relief to the suffering people but the purpose for which the cell was created has been totally defeated.

Friday evening at around 7.30 when telephone number 134 was asked to give details about the killings and situation in disturbed areas, the reply given was that "everything was quite" although eight people has been killed during the day. The person was so ignorant, or may be he did not want to disclose the details. He did not know that an engineering student was killed near NIPA in the morning. The Gulshan-e-Iqbal police station had no knowledge about it either, according to him.

Ministers, even otherwise have nothing to do these days. They should at least listen to the complaints of the suffering humanity, if nothing more could be done to reduce their pain.