Sindh High Court allows ban on motor cycle riding on 9 & 10th Muharram aims to isolate Azadari

The Sindh High Court (SHC), allowing the Sindh government to impose a ban on motorcycle riding on 9th & 10th (Ashura) Muharram, said it could only do so on holidays and not on working days as a large number of the population uses this mode of transport.
The ban on motorcycle riding on 9th & 10th Muharram is a conspiracy to isolate the processions and congregations of Azadari in Karachi instead of holding the ruthless operation against the terrorists of banned outfits and its supporters in Karachi.

Chief Justice Sindh High Court Justice Musheer Alam made this statement while hearing the case and deeming the government’s request unjustifiable.

The Sindh government had earlier filed a request with the SHC to allow an imposition of a 10-day ban on motorcycle riding in light of terrorism threats for Muharram.

Sindh Additional Chief Secretary (home) Waseem Ahmed and Advocate General Sindh Adul Fateh Malik were present in court where the chief justice heard their arguments.

After hearing the arguments, Justice Alam deemed the ban unjustified and said the relevant authorities take better security measures as it was their responsibility, not the people’s.

Remarking that security measures should not be taken at the people’s expense, the SHC allowed for a ban on motorcycles for holidays.

its pertaining to mention here that Majlis-e-Wehdat Muslimeen (MWM) Central leader Allama Amin Shaheedi has rejected the government’s proposal of ban on cell phones and motorcycle riding and demanded that Karachi should be given under army control and termed that the ban on motor cycle riding was a conspiracy to isolate the Azadari (mourning) processions and congregations of Muharram, marking the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (as).