Karachi:
To deprive people of livelihoods will push them to crime, said the president of the association of Pakistan Qingqi Rickshaw Haji Iftikhar.
The prohibition of multiple rickshaws on 20 roads in the city is likely to push thousands of people in famine, said Iftikhar addressing a flanked press conference by the secretary general of the Haji Aamir association at the Karachi Press Club on Monday.
The president and secretary general of the association demanded that the notification prohibiting Qingqi rickshaws on 20 roads of Karachi to be withdrawn. Otherwise, they said that demonstrations set in if this will take place throughout the city.
They said that the traffic police issued fines even on the roads where the prohibition does not apply. They also mentioned that the notification issued by Commissioner Karachi imposing the ban was challenged before the court.
The city administration pushes the ripe pousse drivers and the workers who work hard for the bustle, they said, and asked a sit-in and a roadblock through the city so that the government hears our point of view against the ban on Qingqi rickshaws.
Iftikhar and Aamir declared that Commissioner Karachi had imposed a ban on Qingqi rickshaws on 20 roads in the city. The prohibition has further increased the difficulties of Qingqi rickshaw drivers in the middle of increasing inflation.
They said that demonstrations had also been organized before, but no one paid attention to their complaints or contacted them. They also mentioned that they had written several letters to the commissioner and relevant services concerning the issue, but received no answer.
They said the situation had become so disastrous that the Qingqi rickshaw drivers are now faced with famine at home. Drivers are subjected to traffic police ill -treatment, emitting fines even on roads where the ban is not in force, causing serious distress among drivers. The association has challenged the notification of Commissioner Karachi, and the court hearing is still unanswered.
