A Liaison Wing has been formed to arrest criminals who are operating from abroad. Giving more disturbing figures, an official source said that out of a total of 910 criminals who escaped abroad, 243 were residents of Gujrat, 158 of Sialkot, 92 of Gujranwala, 78 of Mandi Bahauddin, 45 of Sargodha and 39 of Lahore.
He said that the Liaison Wing had been directed by IGP Dr Usman Anwar to collect details of ‘most wanted’ criminals from all regional police officers so that legal action could be taken against them.
In what appears to be a first such initiative, the Punjab Police has constituted a ‘Liaison wing’ consisting of the senior officers from police, Interpol and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to bring 910 ‘category A’ hardened criminals back to Pakistan from abroad.
Majority of them – 70 percent – are hiding in Gulf countries, especially Dubai, while others are in Europe, USA and Canada, from where they operate local criminals in Lahore and the rest of the province to extort small amounts of money from their targets. Can be killed instead. Other heinous crimes including extortion and kidnapping for ransom.
By hiring local shooters, they are contributing a lot to the heinous crimes reported in many cities including Lahore, Gujranwala, Sialkot.
According to the police records, 11 thousand 792 wanted criminals have been declared wanted in the cases registered against them across the province. 910 of them managed to escape from Pakistan. He was involved in heinous crimes including murder and kidnapping for ransom.
