ITP issues over 7,000 tickets against fancy number plates.

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) has issued over 7,000 tickets to the drivers using fancy number plates during ongoing year.

A number of unregistered and fancy plates from cars and motorcycles were also removed during the same period, besides impounding vehicles, an ITP official told reporter.

The ITP education wing was organizing awareness campaigns to sensitize the vehicle owners having unauthorized number plates as it was a security risk, he added.

Special points have been established at major arteries of the city to discourage the practice and removal of such plates, he said.

'The crackdown will continue until all drivers start using authorized number plates,' the official remarked.

Meanwhile, motorists had blamed the Excise and Taxation office for issuing sub-standard and ugly number plates that forces the people to use the plate of their own choice.

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