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Sharif promises sweeping power for army to quell Sindh
KARACHI, June 7: A grim Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed Saturday to give his powerful military chief sweeping powers to quell burgeoning crime in southern Sindh province, reports AP.
The main purpose is to restore law and order and for that we are prepared to give every power to the army under the Constitution,' Shnrif said upon his arrival Saturday In the southern port city of Karachi.
Nearly 40,000 army and paramilitary troops have been deployed In Sindh, where several years of ethnic and political feuding has left thousands of people dpad and Injured.
On Friday, a bomb exploded tn a mosque. Injuring 21 people. In another Incident, gunmen killed two people.
Kidnappings for ransom arc a regular part of life tn Sindh, In Karachi. Pakistan* largest city, wealthy neighbourhoods arc steel-plated doors and barred windows.
Sandbag bunkers decorate
most of the main Intersections in Karachi and In Hyderabad.
150 kilometres (90 miles) to the north.
Armoured personnel carriers rumbled through Karachi last week, parking outside university campuses and suspected headquarters of militant political and ethnic groups
Although the Sindh civilian government is still operating, the army already has the power to arrest and detain without a warrant and without laying charges, at least not immediately.
Pakistan's state-run news agency said the army flushed out bandits on Saturday, killing nine and wounding several more. They .were hiding in thick forests 1n the rugged interior of Sindh, said Associated Press of Pakistan. The army started setting acres of forests ablaze last week to smoke out
bandits.
The main combatants In the ethnic violence are members of the Mohajlr Qami Movement (Refugee People's Movement), representing Indian immigrants to Pakistan at partition in 1947 and Slndhi nationalists. They want greater autonomy or outright independence.
In political battles, the main adversaries have been MQM members and supporters of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's left-leaning party.
Both the army and Sharif has promised that "operation clean-up" will not target any political group. Ms. Bhutto, however, has accused the con scrvatlve Sindh government of harassing and Intimidating her party workers
She said at least 2.000 of her party workers were Jailed without charge*. Her husband. Asif All Zardari, has been in Jail since October 10. 1990.
charged faith extortion, murder and kidnapping for ransom. He professes hl* Innocence.
AFP adds : Pakistan authorities Saturday claimed to have shot and killed nine foreign-trained terrorists and wounded another near Hyderabad. the official Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported.
"Law enforcing agencies on routine patrol in the Ghulam Mohammad barrage area Friday night spotted the group and after two hours of intense firing nine terrorists were killed and one injured," APP said.
The encounter Is the first to have Involved alleged foreign-trained terrorist* since the government launched a six-month long army-led craibkdown last month aimed at crushing force* It described as bandits and subversive and anti-social element* In south-
ern Pakistan ■ Sindh province.
APP said that one of the nine. Just before he died, confessed the explosives were from India and he was also trained there to carry out sub version In Pakistan."
The 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of high explosives recovered from the terrorist proves that India Is involved In subversive activities 1n Pakistan." the agency said.
In the past. Pakistan has blamed India for patronising tei ii/hsm
Law-enforcing agencies also recovered Kalshntkovs of a new model able to fire rockets, the agency said, adding that the authorities believed they had been used during attacks on trains
The authorities, who did not disclose the Identities of the nine men. had earner described them aa bandits.