Police say force will start issuing driving licences for which criteria will be based on international standards. PHOTO: AFP
The National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) are planning to launch a traffic management system under which driving licences of repeat offenders will be suspended.
NHMP Inspector General Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema said the force will start issuing driving licences in the near future, for which the driving test criteria will be based on international standards.
“NHMP is launching a traffic management system under which driving licences will be suspended for six months if the driver commits three major traffic violations,” he said while talking to 53 under-training officers of BS-20 from the National School of Public Policy Staff College who visited NHMP offices for an Inland Study Tour on Thursday.
He said the driving licences issued by various district licensing authorities would remain valid for the time being. Cheema also said the NHMP was in the process of establishing a Road Safety Institute of international standards. Work on this project would start soon, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 25th, 2014.
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