PTI for empowering Rangers to curb street crimes.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former PTI Karachi President Khurrum Sher Zaman demands the Sindh government to empower Pakistan Rangers to combat the menace of street crimes in Karachi.

Sher Zaman articulated this demand in the wake of his nephew being the latest victim in his family to experience street crime on Saturday.

'In the recent past, first it was my wife and children robbed at gunpoint then my sister-in-law and now my nephew. The police seem to be ineffective and incapable to rid Karachi from peril of street crimes.'

The PS-110 MPA pointed to the latest data on street crimes from CPLC that reported 36,320 mobile phones were snatched and stolen during street crime incidents in the metropolis this year so far. In addition, 21,000 motorbikes and 13,000 cars were either stolen or taken on gunpoint from citizens.

'I don't understand how the IG Police Sindh can pat himself and his police force on the back for declining street crimes when compared to 2013...