KARACHI, July 19: Convener of the city council and Naib Nazim Karachi, Tariq Hasan, has formed a committee comprising the house members and the UC Nazims belonging to the towns through which the Lyari Expressway is to pass.

The committee will mediate between those affected by the project and the authorities. The proceedings of the house were disturbed when a large procession from Lyari Town came to the council hall and raised slogans against the illegal demolition of their houses.

The issue was raised in the house at which Tariq Hasan informed that those affected were being provided with fifty thousand rupees and a plot each.

Imran Bhagpati of Jamshed Town raised a point of order over the strike in the cycle market, saying the law enforcement agencies had done nothing to check robberies there. Tariq Hasan said he had visited the cycle market and promised to take up the issue during his upcoming meeting with the city police chief Asasd Jehangir.

The council unanimously approved three similar resolutions.—PPI