Road safety campaign launched 

LAHORE

On the directives of Inspector General National Highways and Motorway Police, Central Zone has started a road safety campaign to ensure proper briefing and enforcement against vehicles with weak tyres considering the fact that worn out tyres are major cause of accidents on highways.   DIG N-5 Central Mirza Faran Baig has directed the Mobile Education Unit as well as patrol officers of central zone to take effective measure against the vehicles with weak tyres as they are a potential threat to safety of road users.

The DIG directed the officers to especially focus on Public Service Vehicles to ensure the safety of passengers. The officers were asked to use tread gauge to check old and worn out tyres, brief the drivers not to use worn out tyres, replace tyres if its tread is less than 1.6 mm, keep recommended air pressure in tyres, keep useable spare wheel and tools and get periodic wheel balancing and alignment. DIG Mirza Faran Baig advised the officers to make all out efforts to make the campaigns successful and directed all the DSPs to personally monitor the campaign in their respective beat areas to make it more effective and result oriented.

EU DELEGATION: Head of cooperation, European Union (EU) delegation to Pakistan, Bernard Francois visited the head office of Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC) Punjab and held talks with Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti. Purpose of the meeting was to share information about EU programme aimed at strengthening reintegration mechanism for Pakistani returnees and to gain updated information about the initiatives of OPC for the welfare of expatriate Pakistanis.

Commissioner OPC Afzaal Bhatti informed Bernard Francois that innovative step of establishing OPC has been taken to secure the rights of Pakistanis living abroad. Afzaal Bhatti told the visiting delegate that OPC and EU can work together in management of migration issues and to provide assistance to migrants.