R ECENT LY, the Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway (M9) has been entrusted to the Frontier Works Organisation for the next 25 years to widen four lanes into six lanes.
This toll plaza lies in Sindh University`s land,and has been taxfreefor university employees, teachers and students. A few days back, when I was travelling to Hyderabad with one of my professors, we were forcibly charged and ill-treated by the FWO staff even after showing them our university employees` card.
However, it`s not only a case of misbehaviour at the Hyderabad toll plaza, sometimes the FWO staff becomes violent.
On May 9, they beat up some officials of the anti-terrorism squad at Tornol toll plaza in Islamabad. Interior Minister Nisar Chaudhry had ordered the Islamabad commissioner to conduct an inquiry into the matter, but it was buried.
