IGP Sindh, Iqbal Mehmood has been given marching orders because he did not support a shady deal to buy Rs. 8 billion worth of APCs and bullet-proof jackets for Karachi police. A powerful group connived to buy type B-7 APCs from an eastern European country, instead of buying type B-6 produced indigenously by POF Wah. Local procurement could not have brought in the huge commissions that a foreign supplier would give to this group.
The PML-N has been calling PPP names since before they came to power, but has been unable to stop corruption on any level and why should they, when they are the greatest benefactors? What I cannot understand is if our army finds it fit to use the locally produced APCs, why not the police?
This proves that IGP Iqbal Mehmood is a man of principle, which is a rare commodity in our thoroughly corrupt police department. It is during this fake ‘democracy’ that such wrongdoing can be pointed out but no one will make an effort to rectify it. Is there no sanity, morality, or ethics left in our nation considering we know why he is being removed but no one does anything to rectify this injustice?
DR A. P. SANGDIL,
Norway, July 5.