PSO’S DEPOT NEAR PORT QASIM, A THREAT TO LIVES
(Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Karachi)
Through your esteemed column, I
want to draw the attention of the authorities concerned towards a very important
matter that should be coped with immediately because thousands of people suffer
from the issue on daily basis and their lives are on risk.
Pakistan State Oil’s depot is situated near Port Qasim on National Highway where
we can find hundreds of oil tankers, either waiting for their turn to fill the
oil in them or they keep standing on both sides of the National Highway
uselessly that cause raise problems for public and private transport.
The points to be raised here is that there is a large empty area of land along
with the PSO’s depot which the PSO’s authorities could exploit by placing the
tankers on the land but unfortunately, the oil tankers keep standing on both
sides of the National Highway due to which thousands of people that travel daily
on National Highway for their jobs, universities or any other purposes, face a
difficult situation as they are daily stuck in traffic jam due to the tankers.
On the other hands, some of the people have lost their lives and some were
severely injured as there have been some accidents due to such tankers. The
drivers of such tankers are usually moving their tankers forward or backward to
stand at a better place along the highway and they don’t care while doing so.
They don’t see where a car, a bike or a bus is coming and they carelessly and
abruptly move the tankers forward or backward that a fast vehicle hits the
tankers and resultantly, a man either loses his life or receive severe injuries.
I along with other citizens demand of the government and concerned authorities
to set up a better place or utilize the empty land along with the depot and
place the tankers in it so that people’s lives can be saved of any mishap and
they could travel without any interruption and could reach their destinations in
time.