The growing menace of beggars at traffic lights was brought to the attention of courts the other day by a petition filed by one Sumaira Mohammadi and heard by a nine-member constitutional bench headed by Justice Muhammad Karim Khan Agha and included Justices Salim Jessar, Omar Sial, Yousaf Ali Sayeed, Abdul Mobeen Lakho, Zulfikar Ali Sangi, Sana Akram Minhas, Khadim Hussain Soomro, and Arbab Ali Hakro.

The Sindh High Court’s constitutional bench it seemed agreed with the views of the petitioners and ordered the Karachi traffic police to take action against beggars at the city’s traffic signals.

Begging is big business in the metropolitan city of Karachi. According to a report, there are more than 130,000 beggars in Karachi and 300,000 beggars come from other cities every year before the holy month of Ramazan, which is just around the corner so we need to brace ourselves for the yearly assault.

Not only that these beggars descend on Karachi but they also fly out to neighboring countries for begging thus tarnishing........

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