The Sindh Home Minister has ordered the creation of a comprehensive and effective security strategy across the province for Eid al-Fitr 2026, directing a ban on provocative material and enhanced vigilance at all public gathering places.
In instructions issued today, the minister specified that the Eid security plan should be coordinated at the police range level, ensuring full cooperation between various law enforcement and intelligence agencies to maintain law and order.
The directives called for “foolproof” security arrangements at central mosques, imambargahs, eidgahs, and other places where large Eid prayer congregations are expected.
Furthermore, an “extraordinary” level of security has been ordered at busy public places, including shopping centers, special Eid discount bazaars, railway stations, and bus terminals, to protect citizens during the festival.
To enhance police presence, special instructions have been sent to Superintendents of Police (SPs), Sub-Divisional Police Officers (SDPOs), and Station House Officers (SHOs) to increase mobile and motorcycle patrols. The minister directed that places of worship be effectively included in patrol routes.
According to Zia-ul-Hassan Lanjar, the security plan should also include surveillance of areas around open spaces, with special attention to car and motorcycle parking facilities.
Strict measures have been ordered to prevent objectionable wall-chalking, the display of provocative posters, and the distribution of any kind of inflammatory literature.
District Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) have been tasked with ensuring law and order with the cooperation of local dignitaries as well as political and religious figures, while strict legal action will be taken against any elements spreading hateful or derogatory material.
For effective monitoring during the three-day Eid holidays, central control rooms will be established at the range level, confirmed the minister’s spokesperson, Sohail Ahmed Jokhio.