Karachi situation will improve with passage of time: Info Minister

Karachi situation will improve with passage of time: Info Minister
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Summary All decisions about Karachi were made with consensus, Pervez Rashid said.

ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervez Rashid has said that situation in Karachi will further improve with the passage of time.

He said that all decisions about Karachi were made with consensus.

The Minister further said that political parties have taken important decisions for making Pakistan a strong country.

He said that Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah is supervising the operation against criminals in Karachi.

Law will take its own course and no injustice will be done to anybody, he added.

Karachi, which is Pakistan's largest city, is suffering from an unprecedented wave of killings and kidnappings blamed on militants, criminals, and ethnic and political tensions.

Gang wars fed by ethnic and political bitterness, drugs and the Taliban, have created a culture of impunity in the city of 18 million, and the past two years have seen record death tolls.

In the first six months of 2013, 1,726 people were killed compared with a previous high of 1,215 in the same period last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently visited in Karachi for talks with political parties designed to come up with a strategy to improve the worsening law and order situation in the city.