GILGIT, May 30: The traders at Sust Dry Port are on strike for the past ten days, suspending all activities. More than 100 containers have been stuck up due to the strike.

President of the Gilgit-Baltistan Chamber of Commerce Javed Khan told this correspondent on Wednesday that the strike would continue until the grievances of the traders’ community were addressed by the government.

He said the basic demand of the trades was that the government should withdraw the contract of opening the Attabad Spillway from the FWO and give it to a company which could do the job efficiently.

Mr Javed added that the government should announce a Rs10 billion package for compensating the affected people as was done for the affected people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.—Correspondent