KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has ordered authorities to submit statements on the implementation of a Supreme Court order banning heavy traffic in Karachi during the day.
According to sources, a two-judge bench set a deadline of March 15 for comments about vehicles carrying essential commodities to clarify the order’s implementation.
The bench warned that it would pass an appropriate order at the next hearing and would grant no further adjournments.
Furthermore, a compliance report was also filed by the deputy inspector general of traffic police, while the National Highway Authority said it only had jurisdiction over national highways.
The attorney for the KDA also requested an adjournment so that he could contact the concerned engineering department official and provide comments in light of the commissioner’s report that had been produced by the different court orders.
The bench stated in its order that counsels for the parties were directed to file brief statements for implementation of orders already passed by the Supreme Court and by this Court, as well as the details submitted by the commissioner, for which all the stakeholders had given their consent and therefore, no further adjournment would be granted.
It is worth noting that the injunction prohibiting high traffic during the daytime hours had been issued by the Supreme Court in August 2007.
Between 2010 and 2022, several petitions concerning heavy trucks and the execution of the Supreme Court’s ruling were submitted to the SHC.
Good decision by the SHC. The Administration of Karachi has completely fail to control the heavy traffic in city.
Oh, Lord God Almghty? Give us Wisdom please. As the situation is becoming bad to Worse in our City Karachi of the congestion of traffic and it’s roads. Here has be be strict Montoring and strict control of traffic which has to be strictly implemented by all. Including the denizens of this City.Period.