"Furthermore, we thwarted more terror attacks against our people by busting five major gangs of terrorists and recovering over 3,000 kg of lethal explosives, arms and ammunition since June 10, 2004 by improving our intelligence network" he added.
He was talking to a 20-member delegation comprising under-training diplomats from Foreign Service Academy of Pakistan, which called on him here at Governor House on Saturday.
Headed by Director Programmes of Foreign Service Academy of Pakistan Amjad Ali Sher, the delegation was comprised of 12 Pakistani and nine foreign under-training diplomats from friendly countries of Pakistan.
Ibad maintained that after 9/11, the dynamics of crime had changed and Pakistanis started confronting with suicide attacks against them, compared to which, dacoities, robberies, arson and car-snatching were very mild incidents of law and order.
"From May 07 to June 10, 2004, we witness a wave of terror attacks against our people and government functionaries, in which lives of many innocent people lost" he deplored adding that due to hectic efforts of the government and law enforcing agencies, the situation was brought under control.
He said government emphasised on improving co-ordination between intelligence and law enforcing agencies, which resulted in improvement of law and order in Karachi to a great extent. "Our agencies busted five major gangs of terrorists and recovered huge quantity of explosives, arms and ammunition" he added.
Sindh governor said that government was emphasising on taking measures to prevent "fundamentalist segments of society from becoming extremists and imposing their policies and thoughts on others forcibly".
"People involved in terrorists activities were of the age of 18-25 and in order to educate people of these age, we are trying to educate people through mosques and madaris, interacting with them besides improving socio-economic conditions in the province" he maintained.
"Employment opportunities are being created and foreign investors are attracted to alleviate poverty, which is another major factor behind compelling youths to indulge themselves in anti-social activities" he added.
He maintained that talks, seminars and conferences were also being held to create awareness among people where ulema and madressah are invited to give them the opportunity to share their views with people from other walks of life.
"All kinds of incitement and provocative speeches from mosques have been banned to prevent clashes between people of different thoughts and approaches as part of administrative measures" he maintained.
To a query, Sindh governor said Sindh government had made a breakthrough with respect to Karo-Kari or honour-killings and owing to its efforts, a bill had been tabled in National Assembly to curb this menace from the society.
"Sindh was the first province to take initiatives against Karo-Kari. Our provincial assembly debated this issue, administrative measures were taken to curb the menace besides awareness was created among masses" he informed adding that the efforts resulted in promulgation of tougher laws against the menace.
Replying to another question, he said feudalism was not limited to Sindh only and it was badly hampering the development of whole country. "Efforts are being made to provide constitutional rights to people without making unrest in the province.
Regarding human resource development, he said training centres were established in the province while emphasis was being laid on provision of basic education free of cost to children.
He pointed out that poverty alleviation was one of the major challenges confronting provincial government and to address this issue, agriculture sector in rural areas was being strengthened to lower pressure on cities like Karachi.
"For poverty alleviation, Sindh government with financial assistance from World Bank has launched several schemes while just distribution of water among farmers was also been given emphasis to strengthen people associated with this sector" he informed.
About problems confronting Karachi, he told that due to influx, pressure on Karachi had increased manifolds and it was becoming difficult deal with emerging issues with present resources. "However, small and medium sized industries are being established to create employment while housing schemes have been launched to provide low-cost housing facilities to people" he added.
Replying to another query regarding holding of by-elections in Thar and security of Prime Minister-in-waiting Shaukat Aziz, he said "results of the elections were obvious" as Thar was the area of Sindh CM from where his family members got elected for past many elections.
"As far as transparency of elections is concerned, that is solely the responsibility of Election Commission. We are responsible only for maintaining law and order, and if Shaukat Aziz decides to visit Thar after Friday's attack, we will provide him fool-proof security" he informed.
He said people who attacked on Prime Minister-in-waiting Shaukat Aziz were not "well-wishers" of Pakistan, as he was the person who put country's economy on the track. "We have made necessary security arrangements for peaceful holding of elections in Thar" he maintained.