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DG Rangers Sindh replaced

In a surprise move late on Saturday night, the military said it was replacing Director-General Rangers Sindh Major-General Rizwan Akhtar with another senior military officer.

A spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Major-General Bilal Akbar has been designated as the next director-general of the Sindh Rangers.

“Major-General Bilal will join the Sindh Rangers in August and will have an overlap of one month before taking over charge as DG Rangers,” said a statement from the ISPR.

The ISPR said Akhtar will continue to perform his duties as DG Rangers until Maj-Gen Bilal Akbar takes over.

The decision comes at a time when a joint operation by police and Rangers against terrorists and criminal elements in Karachi is in full swing.

The city’s largest party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has raised serious reservations against the operation in which, they say, dozens of MQM workers and sympathisers have fallen victim to extrajudicial killings.

On Friday, Karachi Corps Commander Lt-Gen Sajjad Ghani listened to MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s grievances over phone and assured him that a committee would investigate the party’s complaints against the operation.

The MQM chief had earlier said he would write an open letter to Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif about the “extrajudicial killings of Urdu-speaking innocent workers of the MQM by Rangers, their arrests and torture” during the Karachi operation. — news@khaleejtimes.com