THE Sindh government’s decision to launch what its home minister described as a “massive operation” to eliminate bandits in the katcha areas along the Indus marks an important turn in the province’s fight to reclaim the state’s writ from riverine criminal gangs. The minister vowed to use state force to eliminate the katcha dacoits and their facilitators, and permanently destroy their hideouts. The resolve expressed by him to ruthlessly crush the criminals underscores the provincial leadership’s renewed political will to put an end to heinous crimes such as kidnappings for ransom, highway robberies and murders in the........

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