Punjab police said Sunday having killed a bandit, who was allegedly involved in the martyr to the police last year, during an operation in the Katcha area of Rahim Yar Khan, according to a statement.
Organized criminal gangs have been active in the riverside border areas of southern Sindh and the Punjab center for decades, often earning money through assaults with kidnapping for Ransom. The army had launched a large -scale operation against criminal gangs in Sindh in the early 1990s, but resurfaced after successive governments could not maintain the law and order in the province.
According to the Punjab police statement, a suspect identified by Meera Kosh’s alias was killed in an operation in the border area of Kacha Machka today.
“The Police led by DPO (District Police officer) Rizwan Umar Gondal … carried out an operation against the Dacoits involved in the martyrdom of police officers in Kacha Machka,” said a Punjab police spokesman.
The statement added that elite police commands and armored vehicles were used during the operation. The spokesman was summoned by saying that the police raided the hiding places of the Dacoits and a mass shooting occurred.
“[The] Dacoits fled to Sindh, ”said police spokesman.
He added that the police set fire to the ambushed sites used by the bandits after a search operation and pursued them with armored vehicles.
“We will bring small criminals and terrorists to an end,” said Rahim Yar Khan Dpo Rizwan Umar Gondal.
The statement added that the inspector general of the Punjab Police, Dr. Usman, Anwar, congratulated Rahim Yar Khan police for taking martyard police personnel to justice.
Last Saturday, the armed suspects allegedly killed the son of a farmer for refusing to pay extortion in the Katcha in Machka, near the border of Punjab-Sindh.
The reports said that Abdul Wahid, 22, was watering sugarcane fields in Mauza Sikandar Chachar when a group of dacouts supposedly killed him shots before fleeing to the Katcha area of Sindh.
The Sindh Police and the Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) had decided in August last year to intensify the ongoing joint operations against bandits in the river areas of the province.
