IDPs to be restricted to camps, Qaim Ali Shah

KARACHI - Internationally Displaced People (IDPs) will be kept in camps and will be registered, said Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah. Addressing directly to the coalition partners of Sindh government, he said that there was no need for giving strike calls as no one was usurping the rights of Sindh.
Addressing a Press conference at the CM house here on Sunday soon after return from Swat and Mardan, he said government would not compromise on the interest of the province in any manner.
Commenting on the strike calls of nationalists’ forces backed up by the MQM to protest against the entry of IDPs in Sindh, he said that such extreme actions caused negative impact on economy generally and the industrial units were shut down which was against the interest of Sindh.
Shah said that government was striving hard to ameliorate the lot of the poor and to tackle with the rampant unemployment and poverty and distributing lands among the landless peasantry but such extreme actions were creating hindrances in its way.
The CM, who was flanked by Sindh Information Minister Ms. Shazia Marri, Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza and Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq, urged the coalition partners of Sindh government to take care of law and order situation and protect the life and property of the people.
He said that Sindh had suffered huge losses in the Saturday strike and three innocent persons lost their lives while number of vehicles were put on fire. The Monday strike will also cause immense loss to the economy and multiply the miseries of daily wage earners, he maintained.
In the same breath, he declared that the leniency of the government should not be construed as weakness because rangers, police and other law enforcing agencies are on the high alert and protect the life and properties of the people.
To a query, he said that government was monitoring the entry of IDPs and the administrations of Hyderabad, Badin, Mirpurkhas and other districts have started the registration process of the displaced persons.
To a question, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza said that ban had been imposed on pillion riding for one month, both in Karachi and Hyderabad. Police and rangers have been directed to keep vigilant eyes on the miscreants and shot them at the site if they (miscreant) try to disrupt law and order. Neither the federal nor the provincial governments were so weak that handful of miscreants would divert their policies, he underlined.