LAHORE – Hundreds of rickshaw owners took out a rally on Canal Road, from Thoker Niaz Beg to Jail Road, against the Lahore Transport Company and traffic police.Led by Awami Rickshaw Unions, the drivers of three wheelers chanted slogans against the company and police, saying they were crushed ...

There was a time when it was compulsory for the public transport such as rickshaws and taxis to have meters to charge fare at per-kilometre rate. Passengers usually complained about the rigging of these meters as majority of these transporters were seen either arguing or fighting with passengers on ...

PAKPATTAN - The Rikshaw Drivers Union staged a protest in front of the DPO office against police torture on a rikshaw driver here the other day. As per detail, the Fareed Nagar Police arrested Sabir Ali on suspicion in a theft case. During investigation, the police badly tortured him allegedly in a ...

RAWALPINDI  - Heaps of garbage and rickshaw stop on Saidpur Road close to Pindora Graveyard is causing trouble for residents, besides jeopardising splendour of the place. The residents of Siadpur Road and visitors to the graveyard expressed resentment over the heaps of garbage and rickshaw ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - The Pasban Rickshaw-Taxi Drivers union has warned the TMA officials that if a rickshaw and taxi stand was not established for their vehicles they will not pay TMA parking fee in the upcoming financial year 2012-13.While addressing a meeting of union members here on Wednesday, ...

On 16th March, 2012, a dozen rickshaw drivers climbed up a high-voltage tower in Lahore, threading to commit suicide, as a protest against the corruption of the traffic police. The protesters stayed up on the tower for 6 hours, exhausting themselves without food or water, and risking ...

LAHORE – The entire Babu Sabu interchange locality turned into battlefield on Friday, shortly after protesting rickshaw drivers went on the rampage, thrashed policemen, and pelted the cops with stones. More than 10 people including protesters and policemen sustained injuries and were rushed ...

FAISALABAD/ARIFWALA - A rickshaw driver was killed while his brother received critical injuries on Friday near Chak Jhumra, a tehsil of Faisalabad district, when a train hit the vehicle amid dense fog. Sources said the train struck the rickshaw, FSD-1757, at open crossing in Jandianwala, resulting ...

Failing to reach the hospital on time due to the tense situation in Karachi, a woman had to deliver her baby in an auto rickshaw on Friday morning. The husband of Sadia, a resident of New Karachi, said they preferred staying at home till morning due to ongoing unrest in the city. As soon as the sun ...

Two persons riding a motorcycle rickshaw died in Multan, when it rammed into a passing train. Police sources told that a motorcycle rickshaw, while crossing the railway line, was hit by a passing train that left the driver of the rickshaw, Muhammad Sharif and Allah Bukhsh dead. The deceased were ...

DHAKA (AFP) - On the busy streets of Dhaka, Omar Ali snakes his way through the city's gridlocked traffic, pedalling passengers around town on his cycle rickshaw. As one of an estimated one million rickshaw drivers in the Bangladeshi capital, the 45-year-old blends in on his colourful ...

THE bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi's narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city's already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows, said a report published in ...