Small traders announce token strike

KARACHI: All Karachi Traders Alliance Association (AKTAA), representing small traders of the city, Monday announced to observe a token shutter-down strike in the city on 5th April against increasing threats of extortion faced by Karachi traders.

Atiq Mir of AKTAA told this news agency that the traders of Karachi would keep their shops closed on 5th April because they were facing lots of problems including killing of traders, extortion, kidnapping and threats.

He said that the government had failed to resolves traders’ problems. He demanded of the government to provide security to traders and take action firm against extortionist mafia.

Mir said that the traders of Karachi would begin a ‘civil disobedient campaign’, if the government failed to provide protection to them. (PPI)