FAISALABAD, Aug 5: Various traders’ organizations expressed their concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the city and demanded of the governor to take action against lethargic police officials.

A Pakistan Yarn Merchants Association meeting presided over by its chairman Munawar Sheikh here on Monday, observed that dacoities, car snatching and robberies have become the order of the day but police were playing the role of a silent spectator.

The meeting also expressed resentment over the snatching of a huge amount from a local yarn dealer a couple of days ago in Ghulam Muhammadabad. It was also observed that the matter was reported to the area police but no step has so far been taken.

Meanwhile, the All-Pakistan Anjuman Tajiran, the Jewellers Association of Faisalabad and over a dozen organizations threatened to observe complete strike against police failure to control crime against property and person.

The decision was taken at a meeting held here on Saturday night which was attended by two dozen representatives and office-bearers of various traders bodies.

The meeting noted with concern that police failed to find a clue to the bandits who looted the house of jeweller Muhammad Zahid in Karkhana Bazaar.

If police failed to recover the stolen articles within a couple of days, traders would launch protest campaign, they warned.

The jewellers representatives also threatened that they would observe strike for an indefinite period.

They claimed that police officers had confined themselves in their airconditioned houses and offices and they were reluctant to hear the complaints of victims.

The meeting was addressed by Haji Muhammad Bashir, Ijaz Waheed, Mian Muhammad Rafi, Sheikh Mansoor Ahmad, Hafiz Tahir Jamil and others.

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