Pakistan, May 16 -- Whether it was functioning under Police Act 1861 or the Police Order 2002 the police in Sindh remained highly politicized, used as a tool by successive PPP governments mostly for either giving cover to criminal activity or carrying out criminal activity themselves PPP(and for quite some time doing along with the MQM with respect to Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas and Sukkur). The political parties recruited their political workers and relatives of parliamentarians and politically connected persons from constable to Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs). Handpicking the heads of their district police through their political clout, feudal lords ruled their areas as fiefdoms, suppressing all types of dissent and opposition...