the provincial government planned Quetta safe city in 2013 to tackle terrorism and maintain peace. The full implementations of this project still pending in the provincial capital despite allocation of Rs 300 million.

The safe city project was being delayed due to deficiency of former officers with good repute and spirit to serve the people. Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal chaired a high-level meeting on Thursday vowed to counter all challenges regarding law and order decided to launch Safe City Projects in all major and bordering cities of Balochistan.

The session was told that implementation over Quetta Safe City Project has been embarked while planning underway to launch Safe City Projects in all major cities of Balochistan including bordering areas.

Implementation and progress of National Action Plan, capacity of Police and Levies Force, Training Course for Police and Levies under Pak Army, Security for CPEC and Gwadar, Geo Fencing and Locators Technology, performance and capacity of CTD and security for pilgrims were discussed in details during the law and order session.

Under the safe city project 1, 400 security cameras including three scanners would be instilled in the city. The cameras will be monitored round the clock at the police headquarters monitoring the movement of suspects and criminals. However, the same experience had failed in Karachi where serious offences were committed or terrorists operated at will and the cameras failed to identify the gangsters, criminals or terrorists. Thus the system should be installed efficiently while keeping a strong eye over criminal activities.

Technology is useful for the police and other law enforcing agencies to chase the criminals and terrorists in a big way. There is a greater need for improvement in the performance of the law enforcing agencies. It is very difficult to operate or chase the criminals in presence of a million or more illegal immigrants to Quetta. No one knows that who is involved in criminal activities or working for hostile security agencies harming the interests of Pakistan and its people. Thus, the illegal immigrants should be barred from the human settlements inside the major cities, including Quetta, and they all should be confined to barbed wire camps with their movement strictly restricted to their camps only.

There are no opinions on the issue that mostly Afghans were found involved in acts of terrorism in Quetta and its surroundings or elsewhere in Pakistan. The security establishment had already declared the Afghan immigrants as a serious threat to the security of Pakistan and suggested their earliest repatriation.

Their unplanned and unwarranted presence in Quetta and other cities brought many problems for the local population regardless of the political or ethnic divide. There was a surge in crime graph in this Provincial Capital witnessing kidnapping for ransom cases for the first time. There were more cases of violent killing unidentified people were found shot dead by unknown persons presumably for small amount of money.

We are in favor of completion of Quetta safe city project at the earliest to improve the law and order situation in Quetta and other bordering cities. But at present, the Safe project needs to be completed in Quetta so that the situation in the city will improve further. Because the situation in provincial capital is different from other areas and terrorism incidents have increased significantly, so the completion of the project in Quetta should be government top priority.