KOHAT: All Pakistan Oil Tankers Association on the fourth consecutive day of their strike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday set a 24-day deadline to the government to allow their passage through the Kohat Friendship Tunnel and warned that in case otherwise they would observe a wheel-jam strike across the country.

A press release issued here quoted the association’s president Yousuf Mishwani as saying that they had initially suspended oil supply all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which would be extended to the whole country. He claimed that during the last one month 11 oil tankers had fallen into the ravine from the hilly tracks and a number of drivers had been killed.

Mr Mishwani said that hundreds of tankers were parked on the highway. He said that the National Highway Authority had banned the passage of oil tankers through the tunnel for the last eight months, which had been causing big losses to them and the government exchequer.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2017