Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi has directed local administration in Islamabad to remove unnecessary barriers and road closures on the capital's highways, reported 24NewsHDTV Channel.
Interior Minister has directed IG Islamabad to immediately remove unnecessary blocks. Resultantly on the orders of IG Islamabad, CTO Zeeshan Haider and his team started removing barriers and blocks from the highways. Barriers were removed from the Blue Area, F6, F7 and the roads leading to hospitals.
Interior Minister instructed traffic police that wherever it is absolutely necessary, new barriers should be installed in place of old barriers.
The Interior Minister also took notice of the rush at the checkpoints. He ordered that instead of long queues, citizens should be provided with convenience at the checkpoints and the checking procedure should be simplified.
On the directives of Interior Minister, Islamabad police was working to replace the wide blocks at the checkpoints with security cones in alternate rows and to bring in a modern system.