KARACHI, June 2: More than two thousand persons on Monday staged a protest demonstration against the attempt by the administrator of the Evacuee Trust Property to dislodge tenants of more than 50 shops in the Arambagh Furniture Market.

Holding placards inscribed with slogans against the Evacuee Trust Property, they set the effigy of its Administrator ablaze and also chanted slogans against him.

On the occasion, president of the Arambagh Furniture Market Association, Atiq Mir, told newsmen that the administrator of Evacuee Trust Property had issued orders to dislodge the tenants of over 50 shops and to demolish their shops. This was against the law.

He demanded that the government stop such measures, which would deprive them of their livelihood in days of increasing poverty and unemployment. Atiq Mir said he would hold a press conference soon to apprise the media of the alleged corruption of the said department’s officers.—PPI