Summary Nisar will be briefed by security forces about the situation in the city.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Interior Minister Chuadhry Nisar Ali Khan will visit Karachi on July 22 to review law and order situation of the city.
The tour comes after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif instructed him to look into the deteriorating security situation of the metropolis.
Nisar will be accompanied by other interior ministry officials and will be briefed by security forces about the situation in the city.
It was also learnt that Nisar will assure Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah of the centre’s absolute support in tackling the city’s problem.
The interior minister had earlier said that he would not disappoint the people of Karachi if entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order in the metropolitan city which has become a cauldron of sectarian, ethnic, political and militant violence.
Meanwhile, there has been no respite from killings in the city during the first six months of the year 2013, as 1,728 casualties were reported in different incidents, according to a Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report.
