LARKANA: Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan Lanjar said on Tuesday that the government was working to launch highway patrol police within a month’s time.

Talking to journalists at the SSP office here after presiding over a law and order meeting with particular reference to Larkana range, he claimed that the government had made CPEC secure as on highways between Shikarpur and Kandhkot and from Ghotki onwards the traffic was now plying peacefully.

Attributing that success to police efforts, he said criminals had always targeted the highways, but now the highways were safe and action against criminals had been beefed up. “I have passed on instructions to the police in today’s meeting and you will feel the change soon,” he said, sitting beside Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ghulam Nabi Memon and PPP MPA Jamil Soomro, who is also the political secretary to Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

In reply to a question, the home minister said a riverine force and border force was the talk of old time. He said: “Now we are planning to introduce highway patrol police to protect the highways and eliminate crime.”

Published in Dawn, February 5th, 2025

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