CM Murad cracks whip on municipalities digging up Karachi roads

KARACHI: Perturbed by the constant digging up of newly constructed roads by utility agencies and other bodies in the city, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Thursday stripped the town municipal corporations of their powers to grant road-cutting permissions within their respective jurisdiction.

In a bid to centralise the process, the CM decided that all permission to dig up roads to lay any line would now be granted by the Karachi mayor and city commissioner.

The decision was...