KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has approved Rs650 million for construction of Flyover at Sunset Boulevard. He visited the area on Sunday to identify the alternate traffic route so that work could be started on the schemes. He accompanied by Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro, Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem and Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput visited on-going different roads schemes right from Metropole to Port Qasim. Talking to media he said that he has inspected all the roads constructed so far and the flyover over at Manzil Pump and Underpass at Drigh Road from the experts of the NED University. “I am fully satisfied with the quality of work, but I am not satisfied with the pace of work,” he said. He went on saying that the purpose of his visit to push the contractors and concerned engineers to speed up the work. “You have to finish it at the earliest because I am going to launch phase-II of the Karachi Package of Rs 12 billion”, he said. He said that he was quite worried about the growing incidents of attacks on policemen. “But we have identified gang involved in targeted killing [of policemen] and you would receive a good news of bursting the gang shortly,” he said. The chief minister said that the city of Karachi is most beautiful but its beauty has faded away when focus was diverted towards elimination of terrorists, extortionist and target killers. “The government gave special attention to the reconstruction of the infrastructure of the city just after crushing the terrorists,” he said and added “now, the government is focusing on the stability of the peace in the city,” he said. Published in Daily Times, August 211st 2017.