KARACHI, April 13: A track of the New M A Jinnah Road, from the Quaid’s mausoleum to Jail traffic intersection, and the Imambargah Najaf Martin quarters road, serving as a link road between Jamshed Road and Jehangir Road were re-opened for vehicular traffic on Thursday.

Though a ceremony for the inauguration of both roads was schedule for Wednesday, the City Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal, has postponed it in the wake of Tuesday’s act of terrorism in the city.

However, keeping in view the inconvenience of motorists, the nazim, on Thursday, directed the city government’s EDO (Works and Services), to re-open both roads for vehicular traffic without further delay and not to wait for any formal inauguration ceremony in this regard.

A spokesman for the city government said the reconstruction of the New M A Jinnah Road was being undertaken at a cost of Rs300 million and work on the other track would start soon.

While Rs7.5 million had been spent on the reconstruction and widening of the Imambargah Najaf Martin quarters road.

He said work on two other major thoroughfares of the city — Garden Road and Pak Colony Road — was in the final stages of completion.