Traders observe strike in Quetta

Published November 4, 2018
Shops in a commercial area of Quetta are closed on Saturday due to a strike called by the All Balochistan Traders Organisation.—INP
Shops in a commercial area of Quetta are closed on Saturday due to a strike called by the All Balochistan Traders Organisation.—INP

QUETTA: Traders and shopkeepers in the city observed a strike on Saturday. The strike was called by the All Balochistan Traders Organisation in protest against alleged anti-traders attitude of the local administration.

Majority of shops, offices and other business centres in important commercial areas of the city remained closed. However, in some parts of the city, traders carried on with their normal business activities.

Anjuman Tajran Balochistan president Abdul Rahim Kakar alleged that the local administration was not solving their problems and creating hurdles in the way of smooth business activities. He claimed that the local administration was seizing traders’ goods in the name of crackdown against encroachment, and imposing huge fines on shopkeepers.

Striking traders called for the transfer of some officials of the district administration and asked the provincial government to take notice of the situation.

Published in Dawn, November 4th, 2018

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