Two reporters of SAMAA TV were robbed in Karachi s Sohrab Goth area when they were on their way to attend the wedding of one of their colleagues. According to the FIR, Shayan Saleem and Muhammad Ali Hafeez were waiting in a car for a friend near Lyari Expressway’s exit ramp on the Super Highway (M9) when two robbers on a motorbike approached and held them at gun point. Hafeez was deprived of Rs20,000 cash and mobile phone while Saleem lost Rs20,000, original ID card, driving license and an ATM card. The robbers also took two blank cheques and the car keys and made off. According to SAMAA TV s Chief Crime Reporter Ahmer Rehman Khan, this was not an isolated i.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has inaugurated the Karachi Green Line bus rapid transit (BRT) project that will connect 22 stations between Surjani Town in the northern part of the city and Numaish Chowarngi in Saddar. The prime minister has also called for Karachi to be given autonomy like other modern cities of the world. The prime minister arrived in Karachi this morning and inaugurated the project at around 330pm. He is expected to take an aerial view of the BRT track and stations. Security has been beefed up in the city with thousands of police and Rangers personnel deployed on major roads, especially on the Sharae Faisal. After the inauguration the Green Line service will be.
The Green Line bus rapid transit project has given a beautiful gift to Karachi: the most splendid and largest underpass of the city. People were in thralls to the underpass at Numaish Chowrangi when it was given the final touches on Friday just before the inauguration of the Green Line project by Prime Minister Imran Khan.