KARACHI: The Sindh police and Pakistan Rangers on Tuesday agreed to enhance their coordination and information-sharing mechanism for effective performance to improve law and order in the province.

The director general of Rangers, Major General Umar Ahmad Bukhari, visited the Central Police Office (CPO) and met Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Mahar.

“The Rangers DG visited the memorial of martyrs [at CPO], laid flowers and offered fateha for the martyrs of Sindh police,” said a statement issued by the Sindh police.

“During the meeting with the IGP Sindh, Maj Gen Bukhari also paid tributes to the courage and bravery of police who had last month foiled a terrorist attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange,” it added.

He also paid tributes to the services of the martyred police officers, who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty, said the statement.

Appreciates police’s quick response in foiling PSX attack

The Rangers chief reiterated his department’s continued cooperation with the Sindh police in future and said that the paramilitary force stood with the law enforcement agency in its efforts against crime and terrorism.

“Together we will make the overall security measures more concrete and extraordinary,” the statement quoted the Rangers DG as saying.

It added that IG Mahar thanked Maj Gen Bukhari for his visit to the CPO.

“The success against crime depends not only on the excellent and effective coordination and cooperation between the police, Rangers and other security agencies. The timely sharing of information and the systematic and joint action by the forces can lead to better results,” he said.

Teenager dies from electrocution

A teenage boy died of electrocution in the Keamari area, rescue service said.

It said 15-year-old Usman Sajjad was busy at his roadside paan cabin along with his father when he came into contact with an electric wire and died on the spot.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.

Meanwhile, a young man sustained serious wounds when a portion of a dilapidated two-storey residential building collapsed in Lyari in the early hours of Tuesday.

Area people and officials said that the building was located in the Shah Baig Lane area where some seven families were said to be residing for the past several years.

The area police said that the affected building was already in bad shape and the recent rains further eroded the already vulnerable structure.

Published in Dawn, July 8th, 2020