Inspector General of National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP), Sultan Ali Khowaja on Tuesday inaugurated the Driving License Authority, established in Quetta to provide training courses to drivers and facilitate them in getting driving licenses.
Speaking on the occasion, he said that the poor road network in Balochistan was posing a serious threat to the lives of commuters as many traffic accidents in the province have happened due to single roads. IG said the move would eventually curtail the number of road accidents in the area.
He said that he would take up the issue of the expansion of highways in the province with the national highway authority. The IG said that the project worth more than one billion rupees was initiated in 2020 to facilitate drivers in getting driving licenses.
Sultan Ali Khowaja said that regular classes would be started to provide training courses to the drivers, aimed at curtaining road accidents in the province. The authority would be also issued a C license, equivalent to international standards which will create employment opportunities for local people around the world.
The motorway police have installed a tracking system in buses running on the Quetta-Karachi highway to monitor.
