ISLAMABAD Sept 6: The 12-member steering committee constituted by the National Leaders’ Conference met here on Monday to endorse the call for a strike in the country on September 9 (Friday) given by opposition parties.

Briefing journalists after the meeting, the committee coordinator, Liaquat Baloch, said that the committee had appealed to the component parties to mobilise people to ensure success of the strike.

An appeal was also made on behalf of MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Secretary-General Maulana Fazlur Rahman, PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, PTI chief Imran Khan, PMAP President Mehmood Achakzai, TI chief Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi and JUP leader Prof Shah Faridul Haq to the transporters, labourers, students, women and youth to cooperate in making the strike a success.

The strike, the committee said, was against price hike of petroleum products and essential commodities, lawlessness, unemployment, rigging in local body polls and military dictatorship and for revival of supremacy of the constitution and establishment of an autonomous election commission.

The steering committee decided to set up joint action committees, comprising the component parties, in the provincial headquarters Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and district headquarters to coordinate efforts for making the strike a success.