Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Sindh sets April 3 deadline for Ajrak-designed number plates  

Sindh

KARACHI: The Sindh government has given a deadline to vehicle owners to fix new Ajrak designed number plates.

Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawla has warned that after April 3, 2025, no number plate will be acceptable across the province except for vehicles with new new Ajrak-designed number plates.

He said that counters should be provided to traffic police at Civic Centers and Facilitation Centers for one-window operation, and new number plates of vehicles should be ensured at check-posts of traffic police.

Mukesh Chawla gave instructions that the deployment of traffic police personnel at road checking points should also be ensured in the future, in the integration of traffic challans and Motor Vehicle Registration MVR taxes, support should be given to each other in the payment of MVR taxes and traffic challan dues.

Moreover, he said, transfers and tax payments of vehicles with due challans should be made conditional on the payment of challans.

He said that with joint measures and further activation of the online system, pending MVR taxes and traffic challans will be immediately identified and all dues will be paid from a single point.

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PHC imposes ban on using number plates of departments

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  • Court ordered government to take legal action against such people.
  • PHC directed to remove private number plates from vehicles.
  • The private number plate vehicles are used for drug trafficking.

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court(PHC) has imposed a ban on putting number plates of departments and professionals on vehicles.

The Peshawar High Court, while banning the installation of number plates by various departments and professionals, ordered the government to take legal action against those who install such number plates.

According to the PHC, apart from the official number plate, departmental, professional, or any private number plates will be removed from the vehicles.

The court remarked that in many cases, it was observed that departmental, professional, and private number plate vehicles are used for drug trafficking. On September 9, the police caught a vehicle in Mardan, whose number plate belongs to the Peshawar High Court Bar Association was named (APL 2023-KPk).

According to the court, traffickers use number plates of the Health Department, Lawyers, Judiciary, Police, and Excise, etc. To avoid the sight of law enforcement agencies all officers, whether official or private, shall wear the number plate allotted by the Government.

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