PM to arrive in Karachi today

KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is due to arrive in Karachi on Tuesday (today), a day before he is scheduled to preside over a federal cabinet meeting on the city’s deteriorating law and order situation.

“The prime minister will land here in the afternoon,” said an official. “Later, he is likely to attend a Pakistan Navy function before a few meetings with some political leaders and senior officials in the evening. The federal cabinet is scheduled to meet on Wednesday.”



Sources at the Prime MInister's secratariat had said that Sharif would give approval of a joint grand targeted operation during the meeting of the federal cabinet to finally decide regarding steps for peace in the port city. The joint operation would include personnel of Rangers, FC and Sindh Police, the sources added.

Sharif held a meeting with the national security principals to consult over the “overall security situation of the country” ahead of a special meeting of the federal cabinet in Karachi on Wednesday to finalise plans for a crackdown on criminal elements, according to a statement issued by the Prime MInister's Office.

However, multiple sources said much of the focus of the meeting, atteneded by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, ISI director general Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam and the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Tariq Fatemi, was on the situation in Karachi and the intended crackdown.

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