Electric busses to run on Karachi roads from tomorrow

 November 6, 2022

MM News Staff

KARACHI: In a move aimed at improving the environment of the city where vehicular emissions contribute to its poor air quality, Sindh government will be running tests for environment-friendly buses in Karachi from tomorrow.

In a message posted on social media site Twitter, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that the provincial government is launching a new bus service in Karachi tomorrow (Monday)

These will be Pakistan’s first-ever electrical public transport vehicles that are completely environment friendly.

The routes will be finalized after the test run for the electric buses is complete.

In 2021, Sindh Transport Minister Syed Owais Shah had launched Pakistan’s first electric bus in Karachi.

Speaking to the media after the launching ceremony, he had promised that additional electric buses would be brought on to the city’s roads in cooperation with the private sector.

As many as 100 electric buses were planned to hit the road by the end of 2021 but it did not transpire.

Imran Khan Former Pakistan PM says ‘long march’ to resume Tuesday

 Imran Khan made the remarks in a video broadcast from a hospital in Lahore where he was being treated after being shot in the leg during a protest march three days earlier.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his supporters’ “long march” towards the capital demanding early elections will re-start on Tuesday after it was disrupted by an attempt on his life by a gunman.

Khan made the remarks in a video broadcast live on social media on Sunday from a hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, where he was receiving treatment after being shot in the leg during the protest march three days earlier.

The chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was later discharged from the health facility.