After daily and frightfully shocking traffic incidents that mostly involved heavy transport vehicles like dumper trucks and water tankers and took the life of many innocent citizens there has been a ban on motor-cab rickshaws on 11 major roads in Karachi that include nearly all the main arteries from one corner of the city to another.

This is not the first time that such a ban has been imposed. Few years back, these rickshaws had all but disappeared from our roads, but then they suddenly sprang into life with a new vigour fed by the philanthropy of election candidates who donated such vehicles to demonstrate their earnest desire to not only provide gainful employment to their electorate but also ease the load on transport serving their areas.

Since that rejuvenation of rickshaws in the city they have grown steadily not only in numbers but designs and have spread their wings to infiltrate posh areas where they were not seen before like DHA and Clifton. Till recently and before the ban imposed they were doing good business in these areas and had become a valuable and reliable means of transport for the housemaids serving the........

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