RECENTLY, videos on social media showed hundreds of people protesting outside the abandoned offices of a motorbike company.

The enterprise had opened six franchise offices in various parts of Quetta, to lure people in investing their money in the company for lucrative mark-ups as high as Rs3,000 on Rs21,000 investment per month.

The investors flocked to its branches in large numbers to put their money in the business. Some of them even sold their jewellery and some mortgaged their plots of land in a bid to earn profit. According to media reports, the so-called chief executive officer of the company and his staff have escaped after cheating thousands of citizens.

It is time the government sprang into action to give justice to the victims.

Asim Agha

Pishin

Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2019

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