FAISALABAD, Oct 26: Traders have called off their three-day strike against unscheduled power outages from today (Monday) following an assurance given by the Punjab law minister that there would be no unscheduled loadshedding and issue of power tariff would also be resolved soon.

The Supreme Alliance Council (SAC), a body consisting of representatives of traders, industrialists and labourers, had given the strike call.

A hunger strike camp set up by the SAC on Saturday was also called off on Sunday after Law Minister Rana Sanaullah along with PML-N MNA Haji Akram Ansari, PML-N MPAs Nawaz Malik and Khawaja Islam and District Coordination Officer Saeed Iqbal visited it and met with the demonstrators.

Later, addressing the protesters at the Clock Tower intersection, the minister said the provincial government was perturbed over the ongoing power loadshedding and was persuading the federal government to fix the problem immediately.

He said though traders, industrialists and labourers were rightly protesting over the issue, the government was equally doing its utmost to control the situation.

He said the Punjab government had approached the federal government to withdraw new power tariff and the federal government had assured them that 40 per cent increase in power tariff would not be levied again.