Take a look around you next time you are in the car – most of the bikes have no rear-view mirrors. Talk about road safety. Motorcyclists tend to drive looking only to the front with no rear view mirrors because, who wants all that distraction, right? Plus it messes with the Bradley Cooper hairdo these handsome boys sport so well!
Who could forget the VIPs who have to pass through almost every other day. Forget yourself, even a person dying in an ambulance will not be allowed through.
Zebra-crossing? This is as impossible to be implemented here as the concept of transparency in politics in Pakistan. These road safety thingies might come in handy in the west but here, it is done the old fashioned way (if such fashion actually even existed in the past!).
Last but not the least, who can forget the dreaded moment you get caught over-speeding (by the way, as absurd as it may sound for those who do not know, on the Khayaban-e-Iqbal Road in DHA, Lahore the speed limit is 40 km/hour. We are not sure if the road is built for use by humans or tortoises). These uniform clad individuals are barely ever there on the road controlling the traffic but if you dare trespass a red light, they will appear out of nowhere. Hey, they have got mouths at their homes to feed too!
To sum it up, we say forget driving tests, if you really want to test a person’s driving, the roads of Pakistan undoubtedly prove to be the ultimate test of one’s skills. Here it’s not about pleasure while on the road most of the time, but more about survival!
