KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has announced to stage a sit-in against the ban on Qingqis and CNG rickshaws.
The sit-in will be staged outside Quaid-e-Azam’s tomb on August 18.
Qingqis and CNG rickshaws, though un-regularised and without any route permits, had become an alternative transport source for the people of the city in the last decade.
It must be remembered that that a bench of the High Court of Sindh on August 5, 2015, imposed ban on running Qingqi rickshaws in Karachi and other areas of Sindh in its verdict over several petitions declared running of these rickshaws a violation of Motor Vehicle Rules 1969.
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The transport became an essential part of Karachi commuters’ life even made many bus owners shut their business or enter into this Qingqi transport system.
After the sudden ban, the commuters especially women feel stranded and helpless as buses are over crowded with even women compartment filled with men.
Students and working class too has to bear the brunt of the sudden ban with some asking if the rickshaws were too dangerous than why were they brought on roads in the first place? replacing even some buses and bringing to halt the business of other means of transport.
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