KARACHI: A large number of people suffered through hours-long traffic jam on Mai Kolachi Road, which continued from late Tuesday night until Wednesday morning.

DIG-Traffic Ahmed Nawaz Cheema said that on Tuesday night, a traffic jam occurred at the Jinnah Bridge and ICI Bridge due to the breakdown of three heavy vehicles.

“We managed the situation in two hours,” he claimed, and said that the flow of vehicular traffic became “normal” at around 10am on Wednesday.

Apart from this particular issue, the citizens also faced agonising traffic jams in other parts of the metropolis.

Long queues of vehicles seen stuck on Jahangir Road, M.A. Jinnah Road, Soldier Bazaar and other key links of district East on Wednesday evening.

Officials cited a host of reasons, such as digging of roads for construction and laying of utility lines and “VVIP movement”, for the traffic mess created on major thoroughfares during evening peak hours.

Published in Dawn, January 9th, 2025