Traders call off strike

Published May 10, 2002

HUB, May 9: Traders of Hub called off their shutter-down strike on Thursday after a meeting with former Balochistan Minister Jam Ali Akbar.

The business community had been on strike since Tuesday against mounting robberies and lawlessness in the area.

The traders formed a body to look into this problem and get the matter solved after meeting with the officials concerned.

Naseer Roonjho and Tara Chand Lasi were unanimously elected president and general secretary of traders’ association.—Correspondent

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