KARACHI: The National Highway Authority (NHA) has informed the Sindh High Court that the ongoing rehabilitation work on a portion of the national highway from Moro to Kotri Kabir will be completed by mid-August.

A two-judge constitutional bench of the SHC headed by Justice Muhammad Saleem Jessar directed the NHA to ensure that traffic flow on N-5 will not be affected during the restoration work.

It also ordered an additional inspector general of the motorway police to depute an officer to enquire into a recent traffic accident on the national highway in Naushahro Feroze and file a report at the next hearing.

Citing various federal and provincial authorities concerned as respondents, Safia Lakho had petitioned the SHC and submitted that the dilapidated condition of M-9 and the national highway was taking the lives of people as recently many persons were killed in road-related accidents purely attributed to the pathetic condition of M-9 and the non-management of traffic.

At the outset of the hearing, the general managers (North & South) NHA Noorullah Shaikh and Ubaidullah Umrani turned up and undertook that the ongoing rehabilitation work on the national highway from Moro to Korti Kabir in Naushahro Feroze district was to be completed by mid-August.

The bench directed them to ensure that during the ongoing work, the traffic flow on the highway (N-5) is not affected.

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2026