KARACHI Nov 7: Over one hundred private vehicles were lifted and impounded from various showrooms situated at New M.A. Jinnah Road and Khalid Bin Waleed Road in a major operation in Jamshed Town on Tuesday.

The operation to lift vehicles, illegally parked in the lanes and front road of the both arteries, was launched in the afternoon and completed by 9pm.

Jamshed Town Nazim Arif Ajakya told Dawn that a total of 110 vehicles — 78 vehicles from showrooms at New M.A. Jinnah Road and 32 from Khalid Bin Waleed Road — were impounded in the seven-hour operation.

“No untoward incident took place during the operation, which was backed by law enforcers,” he added.

He said almost every showroom owner was warned several times not to park their vehicles in the streets. They were only allowed to park their vehicles in one row outside their showrooms facing the main road but they were violating it consistently and used to park vehicles in three to four rows.

“On Monday, an ambulance took at least 20 minutes to cross a street near New M.A. Jinnah Road due to the parked vehicles of showroom owners,” he said adding that area people were facing severe hardships due to the illegal parking, as they found no place in their streets to park their own vehicles.

Besides, these vehicles were also causing traffic jams in the area.

Mr Ajakya said that all the vehicles were parked in Noor Ground and Tanki Ground, where he deployed police and town staff to ensure security of the vehicles.

He said that City Nazim Mustafa Kamal had also contacted the association of showroom owners for resolving the issue but in vain.

He said that the fate of impounded vehicles would be decided in consultation with the association and the city nazim probably on Wednesday and the vehicles would be released after imposing heavy fine.