Balochistan Govt restores Levies Force

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The Balochistan government has restored levies force to ensure law and order situation in the province.

Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani in a policy statement here Sunday maintained that the past dictatorial regime disbanded the effective Levies Force to please vested interest without realizing the pros and cons thereby creating a serious lacuna where writ of the law was challenged in the rural areas in the absence of the levies force.

Nawab Raisani said that the levies force had been playing a very effective role for more than a century, especially the personnel associated with this force had more knowledge of the people and the geography of the interior of Balochistan than the other law enforcement agencies’ personnel, mostly transferred from other parts to serve in areas having no personal knowledge of the people or the locality.

Nawab Aslam Raisani recalled that the Provincial Cabinet in its meeting held on March 5, 2009 had approved restoration of the Levies Force. Initially, he added, the Provincial Levies Force had started functioning in six districts while the Federal Levies was functional in 16 districts. “However, the Provincial Government has now tabled ‘The Balochistan Levies Force Bill 2010’ before the Balochistan Provincial Assembly in its session on Friday last for consideration and approval,” Nawab Raisani said.

Elaborating the effectiveness of the Levies Force the Chief Minister maintained that the past government had unilaterally dissolved the levies force turning the ‘B-areas’ into ‘A-areas’ with the notion that this way the law and order in the province would come under control.

“The time has proved that such unpopular decisions always fizzle out having no public support,” Nawab Raisani maintained and added: “The government had to invest five times more on maintenance of law and order. However, that did not have much of an impact in the rural areas where writ of the State began to erode sans time-tested levies force.”

“On the other hand, the concept of Levies Force, known as ‘community policing’ in the West had been far more effective and result-oriented with much less financial burden on the public exchequer,” the Chief Minister opined. Nawab Aslam Raisani expressed his hope that the proposed bill placed before the Provincial Assembly would be approved unanimously during its closing session being convened on Monday (today).