KARACHI, June 10: Owners of inter-city buses have warned that they will block the main roads of the city if the city administration launched a campaign to shift bus stands of inter-city buses from the city.

In a press release issued here on Monday, the Sindh-Balochistan Airconditioned & Non-Airconditioned Bus Owners Association said transporters from all over the country at a joint meeting of transporters decided that all important roads, including National Highway, Super Highway, RCD Highway, would be blocked by parking large buses on them if the city government attempted to use force to remove bus stands of inter-city buses from various parts of Karachi.

The meeting, presided over by Haji Mohammed Iqbal, the chief coordinator of the Supreme Council of the All-Pakistan Transporters, was of the view that the shifting of inter-city bus terminuses without providing land for a general bus stand would unjustified.

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