03 May 2004	Monday	12 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

KARACHI, May 2: Streetlights will be repaired and pye-dogs will be eliminated in the Clifton cantonment area. This assurance was given by the CEO, Clifton cantonment, Owais Ahmed , to a delegation of the Defence Associations Coordination Committee, led by its General Secretary Aziz Suharwardy.

The delegation discussed with the CEO various complaints regarding the Defence area, besides steps needed to improve living conditions there. The delegation complained that instead of using funds to improve street lights, dilapidated roads, water supply and clearing of the choked sewerage lines, millions of rupees were being wasted on remaking the existing medians of roads in the Defence Housing Authority.

Pye-dogs were also increasing unchecked in Seaview, Beach Avenue and areas of Phase VI, VII, and VIII of the DHA, it pointed out, adding that the main Saba Avenue, 26th street, and other main roads in the area did not have streetlight poles.

Mr Ahmad assured the delegation that in May, majority of pye-dogs would be eliminated, as for the first time during the past decade dart-guns were being purchased to deal with the menace. Streetlights would also be improved soon as a contract for the supply of lights had been awarded, he added.