Turban-wearing Sikhs can ride bikes without helmets in Peshawar

Sikh community exempt from helmet laws in Pakistan

Spokesman News Service, Pakistan (25th Oct'18): This issue was raised in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly by Sikh community member Sardar Ranjeet Singh and Peshawar police allowed the exemption. The SSP of traffic in Peshawar Kashif Zulfiqar assured full cooperation with minority communities. As many as 60,000 Sikhs live in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including 15,000 who live in Peshawar alone. The Sikh community has been granted exemption from helmet laws in Peshawar due to their religious headdress.

The exemption applies only to the members of the Sikh community who are wearing turbans while riding bikes. Till September, City Traffic Police Lahore (CTPL) had issued over 58,066 challans to bikers riding without helmets in the capital. The campaign to crack down on helmetless bikers kicked off on September 24.