LAHORE, Dec 24: Publishers and booksellers have decided that they will protest against the government on Eid day. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association, officials announced here on Sunday.

They said traders would hold a demonstration outside the Punjab Assembly before Eid, and if the government did not accept their demand, they along with their families would stage a rally outside the Badshahi Mosque after Eid prayers.

The traders are protesting introduction of the tender system for grant of publication of books of the Punjab Textbook Board.

Business in the Urdu Bazaar and adjacent printing and book binding markets as well as paper markets has been disturbed due to strikes by traders for the last two weeks.