QUETTA: The Quetta Metropolitan Corporation (QMC) submitted a report regarding its anti-encroachment campaigns in Quetta in the Balochistan High Court during the hearing of a petition.

A division bench of the BHC comprising Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail and Justice Rozi Khan Barrech heard the petition.

Advocate Nazeer Agha in his petition said the court should look into the growing traffic problem and encroachments in Quetta as it had made the lives of citizens miserable.

Advocate General Balochistan and Deputy Inspector General Police Quetta appeared in the court and informed the bench that the government had plans to build parking plazas to resolve the issue.

“Traffic Police has finalised a presentation to be presented to the chief minister regarding a master traffic plan in Quetta city,” said DIG Quetta Abdul Razzaq Cheema.

The representative of Metropolitan Department also told the court that the QMC was carrying out anti-encroachment drives across the city and that is why there were traffic problems. He added that the QMC had been meeting government departments to obtain state properties for road expansion.

The court ordered cooperation among all departments to address traffic issues in the provincial capital and asked QMC to submit the anti-encroachment drive report at the next hearing.

The court adjourned the hearing till Oct 16.

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2019