PESHAWAR: Traders in Peshawar are set to extend their protest to the provincial level against frequent incidents of abduction for ransom and the government’s failure to provide security to the citizens.
Traders have been protesting for the past one and a half month in Peshawar against the poor law and order, massive load shedding and the continued price hike in the city.
During heir protests, the traders had set up a two-day camp at Yadgaar chowk, a one-day camp at University Town, a one-day camp on Sadar Road and also staged a sit-in at the Peshawar Press Club.
“We are going to extend our protest to the provincial level now, as the government has turned a deaf ear to our protests in Peshawar,” Haji Haleem Jan, NWFP president of the Markazi Tanzeem-e-Tajiran, told Daily Times on Sunday.
Haleem said the traders had decided to meet in the first week of February to devise a strategy to step up their protests.
He said the Peshawar Tajiran Ittehad, headed by Haji Ghufran, would hold a protest camp on Tuesday in front of the Peshawar Press Club.
“If the provincial government is helpless and cannot provide protection, it should resign,” he said.
Haleem said the government had taken no steps to provide protection to the traders, who were being abducted and killed. The traders’ leader said business activity in the city had been considerably affected and around 70 percent of the factories had closed.
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