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Summary Karachis motorcycle rickshaw drivers have staged a mammoth rally against police crackdown.
The drivers said that police were tormenting them under the garb of enforcing routes. The police on the other hand say that they are forcing routes as a number of motorcycle rickshaws were violating route restrictions. Police also say they received complaints to this effect from the Karachi Transport Ittehad.Police have imposed heavy fines of rickshaw drivers found violating the routes. The rickshaw drivers took out a rally from Purani Numaish MA Jinnah Road.All Karachi Motorcycle Rickshaw Welfare association leader Syed Safdar Shah Qadri said police have arrested many drivers in the name of crackdown. He also said police were trying to block their rally by saying there was VIP movement on MA Jinnah Ropad, but rickshaw drivers are determined to reach Tibet Centre.
