The Sindh government has decided to change the number plates of vehicles in the province of Sindh. Vehicle owners are required to buy the new number plates by a deadline that has already passed with many vehicles still using the old number plates and deadline after deadline passes away with the threat of vehicle confiscation and challans of hefty amounts of penalties threatening vehicle drivers who have not as yet changed their number plates. This decision to change number plates was a bolt from the blue.

The matter really under consideration was the increasing number of fatal accidents, especially in the metropolitan city of Karachi. In that context many proposals were made that ranged from stricter physical fitness evaluations to having more disciplined motorcycle drivers who will have motorcycles in better shape than presently are visible on our roads and better adherence to traffic rules including obeying such vital instructions as one way indicators and of course that never to be complied with instruction of wearing a........

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