KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah on Saturday has formed a task force over the Rangers report regarding extortion and balck money in Karachi.
The force headed by Justice (retd.) Ghulam Sarwar Korai will determine the elements involved in the financing of terrorists and criminal gangs operating within the city.
Session judge Arjun Ram and Interior secretary Mukhtar Soomro will also be a part of force which will give suggestions for bringing a stop over terror financing in Karachi.
It must be noted that DG Rangers during the apex committee meeting claimed that Rs 230 billion are collected from illegitimate means every year from Karachi.
It was further revealed that the money earned through the illegal means is also distributed among the influential personalities and gang war groups.
The DG Rangers told that the crores of rupees are distributed to gang war factions that use it to buy weapons and to maintain armed groups. He said that the money is also used to fund and maintain militant wings of political and religious parties.
It was further revealed that money is forcefully taken in the name of Zakaat and Fitrah while the money obtained by collecting and selling skins of sacrificial animals also contribute a major portion into the fund.
Small markets, budget bazaars and even schools are regularly extorted and the amount collected from there amounts to several crore, it was learnt.
It was told that the land grabbing and china cutting is also distributed into three parts and that political parties, city district government, district administration and police are also the part of the mafia.
The participants in the apex committee were further told that a major political party acts as a patron of the possession mafia while other political leaders and builders are also part of this illegal business.
DG Rangers told that the amount earned through the smuggling of Iranian diesel is also a major source of funding for terrorism. He told the hoarding and illegal supply of water is also used for this purpose.
Other means of illegitimate sources of businesses include illegal wedding halls, parking areas, drugs, money laundering and match fixing.
He told the proceeds obtained through cyber crime and foreign funding to seminaries is also used to farther terrorist infrastructure.
