Closure of bara shops criticized

Published July 11, 2003

PESHAWAR, July 10: The bara shopkeepers of Khyber agency  staged a demonstration against closure of their shops by political authorities outside the governor’s house on Thursday.

Shopkeepers carrying placards, on which slogans against political authorities were written, submitted a memorandum at the governor’s house. Later, they marched to the Peshawar press club on Sher Shah Soori Road.

Speaking at a news conference, president bara tajran union Yar Asghar Afridi said that bara political authorities had forcibly closed all markets, hotels and shops owned by the Sipa tribe on June 24 on charges of car theft and kidnapping for ransom.—Bureau

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