KARACHI:Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Asad Umar, on Saturday strongly criticized the PPP-led Sindh government over failure to provide security to newly inaugurated Karachi’s Green Line BRT service.
Stones have been pelted at the newly-inaugurated Green Line bus service in Karachi at multiple points between Surjani and Numaish areas of the city. According to sources, side glasses and window panes of the buses running on the green line track were damaged in the stone-pelting incidents. The stones were pelted from the pedestrian bridge and damaged the infrastructure of buses,” they said adding that however no passenger was hurt in the incidents.
Reacting to the incident, the federal minister slammed the Sindh government for not providing security to Karachi’s first modern transport system. “Federal had launched the project and now it is the responsibility of provincial government to provide security to bus service,” he added.