A section of the Green Line bus service project that sprawls through Business Recorder Road poses a serious threat to the security of journalists as one of its passenger stairs falls right in front of the Recorder House. Shifting the passenger stairs leading to bridge station to its next corner, which is also being developed simultaneously, can help reduce the looming insecurity to hundreds of working journalists of Aaj TV and Business Recorder.
The journalists showed concerns over the bridge structure that poses a potential threat to them, demanding the federal and provincial governments revisit its design to help ease their apprehensions. In this connection, a meeting, which was attended among other by President Karachi Press Club Ahmed Khan Malik and senior office-bearers of Karachi Union of Journalists, discussed the issue. The KPC President assured the meeting that they would certainly approach both the federal and provincial governments to convey to them sensitivity of the matter.
A committee under President KPC was formed to hold meetings with the Sindh Chief Minister, the Sindh Transport Minister and other government officials to resolve the matter at the earliest. The project is under way at a cost of Rs 16 billion to link Surjani Town to M.A. Jinnah Road covering an area of 18.4 kilometers with 22 stations at different points. The project is expected to facilitate nearly 300,000 commuters a day.
Business Recorder House had been under terrorist attacks, which left some of its employees injured. Such attacks frequenting from the past also forced the Recorder House to fortify its structure by beefing up external security.