Daily Times

KARACHI: On 21st Ramzan-ul-Mubarak 1438 AH i.e. 17th June 2017, at 1300 hours, a procession will be taken out from Nishter Park in connection with Shahadat of Hazrat Ali via the following routes which will terminate at about 2000 hours at Imambargah Hussainian Iranian.

Traffic police has issued a plan in this regard: As soon as the procession will start from Nishter Park, all traffic coming from city side will be diverted towards Soldier Bazar (Bahadur Yar Jang Road), Coasts Guard, Ankle-Saria to Jublie to Garden Zoo to reach their destination. All kind of traffic coming from Nazimabad side will be diverted from Lasbella towards Nishter Road towards Garden Zoo to reach their destinations.

All kind of traffic coming from Liaquatabad side will be diverted on Martin road towards Jail side. These vehicles shall, however, be permitted to proceed upto Jail and shall then proceed via Jamshed Road, Dada Bhoy Noorji Road, Kashmir Road, Shahra-e- Quaideen, Shara-e-Faisal to reach their destination.

All kind of traffic coming from Stadium Road side shall proceed via New MA Jinnah Road. These vehicles shall be diverted at Dada Bhoy Noorji Road towards Kashmir Road, Society Light Signal, Shara-e-Quaideen to Shara-e-Faisal. All kind of traffic coming from Superhighway from Gulberg side shall be diverted from Liaquatabad No. 10 towards Chowrangi No.2 Nazimabad and shall proceed via Habib Bank Flyover, Estate Avenue Road, Sher Shah to Maripur Road. For return journey these vehicles shall adopt the same route.

All kind of traffic shall not be permitted to proceed towards the route of the procession from Guru Mandir (Roundabout). These vehicles shall be diverted towards Bahadur Yar Jang road and again towards Khan Bahadur Naqi Muhammad Khan Road. All kind of Traffic coming towards Quaid-e-Azam Mazar via M.A. Jinnah Road will be diverted towards Bahadur Yar Jang Road. No vehicular Traffic will be permitted to proceed towards Numaish under any circumstances.

All vehicular Traffic approaching Numaish via Shahra-e-Quaideen shall not be allowed to proceed from the roundabout of Society Office Roundabout behind Mazar Quaid except those arriving for participating in the procession having stickers pasted on their wind screens issued from this office. All Traffic going towards Saddar and other Colonies will not be permitted to proceed towards Empress Market from the junction of (1) Preedy Street/MA Jinnah Road, (2) Court Road Chowk and (3) Fresko Chowk when the head of the procession reaches near the crossing of M.A. Jinnah Road/Mansfield street.

Similarly, all vehicular Traffic proceeding towards Saddar via MA Jinnah Road shall not be permitted to proceed from its junction with Preedy Street, Aga Khan Road and Mansfield Street. No vehicles shall be permitted to proceed towards M.A Jinnah Road from the junction of MA Jinnah Road/Preedy Street when the procession clears the intersection.

The vehicular traffic coming on Aga Khan Road from Garden Zoo and want to approach MA Jinnah Road shall not be permitted to proceed towards MA Jinnah Road. These vehicle shall be allowed to proceed upto / near Ankle-saria Hospital.