Naqvi orders countrywide crackdown against gas, electricity theft

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday tasked the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to initiate a crackdown across the country against power and gas thieves.

Chairing an important meeting at his office, the minister gave instructions to the FIA to take strict legal action against those involved in electricity and gas thefts.

The FIA officials informed the minister that special teams were already constituted to crack down on electricity and gas thieves on the past instructions given in the last meeting, the official news agency reported.

Upon receiving a detailed report on the Greece boat accident submitted by the FIA officials, Naqvi directed that all the elements involved in this tragedy must be brought to justice.

He also directed strict action against all the elements involved in human trafficking to curb this evil. The minister also directed to further tighten the cordon against those involved in the hundi/hawala business.

The action against those involved in the hundi/hawala business has improved the value of the Pakistani rupee, the FIA officials informed the minster.

The minister also reviewed the progress on pending promotions of FIA officials and directed to deal with pending promotion cases on urgent basis.

All pending promotion cases should be disposed off within the prescribed period of one month, he directed the FIA’s top leadership.

In the meeting, the progress on the orders issued on the occasion of the visit of the interior minister to the FIA headquarters last week was also reviewed.

Interior Secretary Aftab Durrani, additional DGs and directors of all regions of FIA attended the meeting.