From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: Crime and Police.

Daring daylight dacoities and shop-burgling cases in several localities of Karachi, particularly Nizamabad ... have tenAded to create a sense of insecurity among law-abiding citizens. ... Suspicious characters, ruffians and robbers with or without arms, are unusually active and their audacity seems to be increasing with every successful exploit. In fact, emboldened adventurers have lately gone to the extent of giving advance notice of their evil intentions, demanding ransom and returning to collect it. ...

While it will be unfair to say that this state of affairs betrays a general want of confidence in the capacity or performance of the City Police, there is no escape from the...

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