LARKANA: The Jamiat Ulema-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has asked the Sindh government to take immediate steps for peace in Sukkur and Larkana divisions.

In his video message, JUI-F Sindh General Secretary Maulana Rashid Mahmood Soomro observed on Tuesday that incidents of dacoity, kidnapping for ransom and other crimes were rampant even after spending Rs2bn on anti-dacoit operations over the last few years. He said his party was going to launch a campaign across the province within the next fortnight.

Also on Tuesday, JUI-F Sindh executive committee unveiled a schedule for province-wide rallies against deteriorating lawand order, corporate farming plan and other pressingissues.

Rashid Soomro, who also attended the committee`s meeting, asked the federal and Sindh governments to launch a ruthless anti-dacoit operation along with Rangers to contain crime and eliminate dacoit gangs, which had destroyed peace fiber in the two divisions.

He remarked that `Sindh has been left at the mercy of dacoits and inefficient rulers`, observing that heinous crime including kidnapping for ransom were still rampant in upper Sindh districts.

Recently, a child was kidnapped in Shikrapur and the kidnappers were demanding a huge ransom for his release, he noted.

`The Sindh government has been spending Rs2bn on eliminating dacoit gangs by launch-ing a host of police-Rangers operations yet without a remarkable improvement in the situation,` he said.

`Why these operations did not bear fruit even after spending such a huge amount of funds?` he questioned.

`Commuters are feeling insecure in Tangwani, Kandhkot, Kashmore, Shikarpur, Thull, Jacobabad, Garhi Yasin, Ratodero and Naudero even during day time what to talk of travelling in night hours,` he added.

`Govt product of fake mandate` The JUI-F leader said: `Where is the inept and inefficient government, which is the product of fake mandate?` It should concede its failure, he added. He urged the army chief, Corp commander, prime minister, Sindh chief minister and Rangers director general to convening a multi-party meeting to address the pressing issue of law and order in Larkana and Sukkur divisions.

He also posed a question that why Rangers had also failed toclear the riverine areas of gangs over the last two years.

Addressing the Sindh government, Rashid Soomro said: `You cannot absolve yourself of the responsibility [to restore peace] by just passing on the bucks. You are the government, and you have to establish the writ,` he said.

He warned the government to immediately restore peace in Larkana and Sukkur divisions or face a series of protests including demonstrations in front of the CM House and residences of ministers, MNAs and MPAs.

He said JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman would be visiting Hyderabad on June 15 to address a public meeting to condemn Israel and support Palestine, and also a gathering on `Difa-iWatan.

Meanwhile, the executive committee of JUI-F Sindh went into an urgent session at Jamia Islamia Ishatul-Quran wal Hadees on Tuesday and extensively discussed the prevailing law and order in the province.JUI-F Sindh Emir Maulana Abdul Karim Halejvi presided over the meeting.

The meeting expressed its concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in Sindh, federal government`s corporate farming plan and other problems. It announced a schedule for the province-wide protests.

In the first phase, it said, protests would be held in front of press clubs, followed by multiparty conferences on district and sub-divisional levels.

On June 30, a `grand jirga` of chieftains of different tribes and clans would be held in Sukkur Press Club on tribal feuds and their resolution.

On July 17, Sindh CM House would be encircled by JUI-F leaders and activists led by Maulana Fazulur Rehman.

Syed Siraj Shah Amroti, Maulana Abdul Mujeeb Qureshi, Maulana Mohammed Swaleh Indhar, Dr A.G. Ansari, Maulana Nasir Mehmood Soomro, Mufti Mohammed Idrees, Abdullah Halejvi and others attended the meeting.