KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has stopped contractors from carrying out construction work on MA Jinnah Road.
According to details, the KMC chief engineer sent a letter to the General Manager of the Pakistan Infrastructure Development Company Limited (PIDCL), informing them of the decision.
PIDCL officials, while talking to a private TV channel, said that KMC had issued a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for construction on MA Jinnah Road in 2017.
They added that NOCs for major construction projects are issued only once and do not have an expiry date. In July 2025, a letter regarding the project was also sent to all relevant departments.
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Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab, in an interview with the TV channel, said that the work on the project started seven years after the NOC was issued. He stressed that proper planning should have been done before beginning construction on MA Jinnah Road.
The mayor said that ongoing construction work is causing problems for commuters and that KMC had earlier directed that construction should only begin after an alternative road was built to ease traffic flow.
