Wednesday May 4, 2016
Kabul (BNA) Following recent kidnappings in Kabul and other provinces, Ministry of Interior (MoI) assured of sparing no efforts to prevent criminal activities throughout the country.
On increasing kidnappings and other criminal activities in the capital and other parts of the country, the ministry’s spokesperson, Seddiq Seddiqi said ‘We do our best to seriously fight crimes across the country.’ Besides, Seddiqi said, people’s cooperation with police is imperative to prevent crimes, because, it helps the police to easily identify suspicious activities and people. Feraidoun Obaidi, head of Kabul criminal investigation department said, ‘At the first month of solar year (Hamal), 280 people on criminal activities and 350 gangsters have been arrested from the different parts of the Kabul city.’ ‘We do our best to have a safe and secure city, Obaidi further said, adding the convicts of Abasin’s kidnapping case have been arrested and their penalty will be announced through media after final investigation.’
On more effective and stronger initiatives Obaidi said, ‘These initiatives include checking of suspicious areas, investigation on Kabul province districts and collecting gangsters from the streets.’ We assure our people that we are committed to ensure the security in Kabul, so our countrymen live in a comfortable atmosphere, Obaidi continued. Besides war and insecurity, criminal activities, particularly kidnapping cases in Afghanistan have seriously concerned the people. Meanwhile, a number of lawmakers said, ‘Due to less attention of the Afghan security forces in prevention of criminal activities, the ground is further paved to the criminal groups, they ask the government to act based on criminal law against such people. Wolesi Jirga’s administrative board and civil society activists on Saturday called Abasin’s kidnapping and murder a brutal act and asked the government to bring to justice those behind the incident. These criticisms rose while recently, Abasin, a 14 years old teenager whom was abducted from the Kart-e-Now was brutally killed. A high school teacher, Mursal said ‘each morning when my children go to school, I get so worried until they come back home. Therefore, I expect the government, specially the security entities to establish security posts in all schools and also prevent gangsters’ existence from the areas.’ This is while that recently, Abasin 14 had been abducted and then killed and also an Australian woman while going to her office was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in eastern Nangarhar province.
Suraya Raiszada
