KARACHI, Jan 20: Hundreds of traders belonging to different business organisations under the banner of the Supreme Council of Traders staged a protest demonstration on M.A. Jinnah Road against electricity load-shedding and increase in prices of gas, power and petrol.

The demonstrators raised slogans against the government and set fire to an effigy of the KESC administration.

Earlier rallies were taken out by traders from different business centres of the city which converged on M.A. Jinnah Road.

Addressing the demonstrators, the chief convener of the traders’ council, Imran Saeed Baghpati, urged the government to cut the power tariff and raise the production of electricity so that business activities could run smoothly in the city.—PPI