KARACHI: SNF backs strike call

Published January 9, 2007

KARACHI, Jan 8: Chairman of the Sindh National Front Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has extended his party’s support to the call for strike on January 10 given by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum. In a statement issued here on Monday, Sardar Bhutto appealed to transporters, traders and people from different walks of life to make the strike a success by keeping their business closed to express solidarity with the fisherman community. The strike call has been given to register protest against the sale of twin islands off Karachi coast.—PPI

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