It looks as if there is no stopping the bandits of katcha. Earlier this week, five cops were martyred after a police checkpoint in Rahim Yar Khan district, located in southern Punjab, had been attacked with rockets and grenades by dozens of bandits of katcha. These notorious criminal gangs — infamous for kidnapping, extortion, murder and honey trapping — have been operating in the riverine areas of Sindh and Punjab.

This menace dates back to the nineties, and........

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