QUETTA: Traders and transporters in Zhob observed a strike on Monday to protest against the government’s failure to recover the polio workers and Levies personnel who went missing on Feb 4.

Trading centres and shops remained closed and transporters kept their vehicles off the road in response to the strike called by the local paramedical staff association. A procession was taken out in town with participants shouting slogans for an early recovery of the four polio workers and three Levies personnel.

Also read: Polio workers, security personnel go missing in Balochistan

Representatives of the business community and transporters regretted that 12 days had passed since the incident took place but the government and police had failed to trace the missing people.

They called upon the administration to make concerted efforts to recover them immediately.

Published in Dawn February 17th , 2015

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