Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Ameer, Monem Zafar, criticised the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) government for leaving Karachi residents vulnerable to street criminals, noting that over 100 innocent people have lost their lives in roadside robberies this year.
Amid deteriorating law and order in Karachi, the Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) has released the statistics of the amount of crimes committed in the streets of the port city in September 2024, according to ARY News.
Notably, street crimes in Karachi have been on the rise, with more than 50,000 incidents documented by the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) between January and August of 2024.