ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday told the National Assembly (NA) that the ongoing operation in Karachi against crime and terrorism has resulted in a 43 per cent decrease in targeted killings, 37 per cent decrease in incidents of murder, and a 6.7 per cent decrease in incidents of terrorism.
The Minister said that 580603 people have arrested so far. Of them 630 wanted criminals while 9570 criminals at large were arrested.
Sharing statistical data from the operation he said that target killing had reduced by 39 percent, murder had reduced by 35 percent, terrorism had reduced by 6.7 percent and robberies had reduce by 31 percent.
He also gave details of nationals of five countries who have are living in Pakistan. Of them the largest numbers of people are from Aghanistan. Pakistan is hosting over 116300 Afghan refugees.
