KARACHI, July 19: Rickshaws without environment-friendly silencers will not be issued fitness certificate from July 25.
A senior police officer said 1,500 silencers were ready and were being fixed in rickshaws. There were more than 28,000 rickshaws in the city and all of them must have silencer in the next six months.
A representative of a rickshaw-owners union demanded that last date for fixing silencer be extended as it would not be possible to fix silencers in all the rickshaws in a week.