SUKKUR May 4: Terming the rising prices of petroleum products as economic murder of the transporters, the Sukkur Alliance of Goods Transporters Association has urged the government to immediately withdraw the recent increase.

Speaking at meeting of the alliance here on Sunday, its general secretary Abdul Aziz Bandhani and other office-bearers said that the government was increasing the prices of petroleum products without taking into consideration its impact on the industries and transporters.

They said that due to repeated increase in the petroleum prices, many transporters have closed down their business and added that this increase was not only affecting the transporters but overburdening the consumers.

They demanded of the government to slash down the prices of petroleum products and items of other daily use to provide relief to the people, as had been promised before the general elections.