ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: A local market traders on Monday observed five-hour-long shutter-down strike over the shooting of their colleague by unidentified person on Sunday night.

More than 300 traders of Nishtar Market, commonly known as Peshawar Mor, gathered at the market and announced the shutter-down. The protestors also staged a sit-in.

They were carrying placards inscribed with slogans against the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and city police for their failure to provide proper medical treatment to the injured and security to traders.

Naseer Abbasi, a poultry trader, was on his way home from the market when some unidentified person intercepted him some distance away from the market after a brief chase and fired point-blank at him.

As a result Mr Abbasi received the bullet on his neck which exited from the other side and he fell on the ground and started bleeding. Later he was shifted to Pims.

Talking to Dawn Shakeel Abbsi, general secretary of traders union of the market told Dawn that that their colleague was in serious condition as Pims doctors and medical staff failed to provide proper medical treatment to him.

He said the injured remained in the hospital for two and half hours and there was no senior doctor available to entertain him and he had to be removed to Shifa Hospital where he had been kept in the ICU ward and doctors described his condition critical.