PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province government will equip the counter-terrorism force with cellphone tracking devices to check incidents of extortion and kidnapping for ransom in the province.
It will also legislate to declare the use and sale of unregistered SIM cards in the province as penal offences. Currently, there is no law to declare such acts criminal.
Recently, provincial police chief Nasir Khan Durrani had requested the federal government to legislate on the matter.
Provincial information minister Mushtaq Ghani, who presided over a meeting of technical committee on law and order here yesterday, said that equipment would be purchased for the counter-terrorism force.
The committee was set up in light of the National Action Plan against terrorism.
The minister said his government would immediately provide two locators to the counter-terrorism force to help identify location of cellphones used for terrorism-related activities, kidnapping for ransom, and extortion.
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