CHARSADDA: A multiparty conference here on Tuesday demanded of the district administration to withdraw its decision of shifting the general bus stand outside the Shabqadar city.

ANP’s Musarat Yar Pakhtun Yar, Shahid Khan and Amjad Katozai, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Haji Jan Syed, Sikandar and Tariq, JUI-F’s Maulana Shamsul Haq and Sanullah Danish, PML-N’s Rehmat Ali Mohmand, and Mohammad Idress, JI’s Azmat Akbar, and Tajwali Noor, Anjuman-i-Tajiran’s Noor Ahmed, Youth Pakistan’s Seyar Khan, Pasban’s Mohammad Yousaf Khan and others were in attendance.

The MPC through a unanimous resolution gave the government a week’s time to reverse the decision, or they would close all the bus stands for Mohmand, Bajaur, Charsadda and Peshawar.

The participants regretted that the decision to shift Shabqadar bus stand four kilometres away from the city without consulting political leadership was an unwise decision.

They pointed out that the government servants and other passengers would have to pay Rs20 extra to reach the bus stand from the Shabqadar Bazaar.

Meanwhile, passengers suffered due to a strike by the local traders and transporters against shifting of the bus stand outside the main city.

The transporters warned to go on a wheel-jam strike if the decision was not taken back.

Published in Dawn, June 17th, 2020