Takfiri groups, taliban, BLA joined dacoits against police’

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that banned terrorists organisations, including the takfiri Tehreek-i-Taliban, ASWJ, LeJ and the Balochistan Liberation Army, are fighting along with dacoits in the katcha area of Ghotki with the police who have launched an operation against criminals.

He said this while speaking at a press conference here on Sunday after presiding over a meeting regarding law and order in the Sukkur region with the commandant of Rangers, the deputy inspector general of police, deputy commissioners and senior superintendents of police.

The CM said that in the Ghotki operation, criminals were equipped with modern weapons while the police were using old weapons. He said he had spoken to the army chief in that regard and the army chief had sought a list of required weapons and on receipt of such weapons and equipment, they would be provided to the police.

He said that the Rangers and the police were carrying out the operation against criminals and the government needed the army’s help only for weapons.