Two-week extension: Removal of encroachments in Liaquatabad

National Highway Authority plans to use the land to complete the Lyari Expressway.

KARACHI:

A two-week extension in order to clear certain areas in Liaquatabad has been granted by the Karachi Commissioner Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi.

The National Highway Authority will use the land to complete the Lyari Expressway.  In a meeting held to review the progress of the project, the commissioner said that the expressway would have no stop lights on the road and would reduce the flow of traffic on the roads. The commissioner had earlier also called for the encroachments to be removed.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 7^th, 2013.