QUETTA has been facing the worst traffic congestions. Every time you come out of home, you are trapped in traffic jams. One of the reasons is the absence of traffic regulations.

There are untrained traffic wardens, on the one hand, and people lack in civic sense and disregard traffic rules and the police, on the other hand.

This situation has become a nuisance for law-abiding people. There is not even a single traffic signal functional in the city. Lawmakers, who made several promises during their election campaigns, never fulfill such promises.

Umer Buzdar

Quetta

Published in Dawn, January 4th, 2019

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