PESHAWAR, Oct 18: The city transporters on Thursday threatened to observe a wheel-jam strike on Sunday if the deputy inspector-general traffic police is not transferred.

Addressing a gathering of transporters at general bus stand, NWFP Public Transport Owners Association President Jehangir Khan Afridi alleged that the traffic police, on the orders of DIG Sajid Owais Agha, had launched an  “anti-transporters campaign” and impounded hundreds of vehicles in the last two weeks.

The traffic police, in violation of the Provincial Motor Vehicles Act, 1999, was imposing on-the-spot fines and impounding vehicle to extort money from the  transporters, he alleged.

He threatened that if the traffic police did not stop highhandedness against the public transport, a wheel-jam strike would be observed on Sunday.

National Assembly member of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Sabir Hussain Awan, supported the strike. Others who spoke on the occasion included, Abdul Fatah, Yousaf Shah, Farmanullah, Shakirullah and Fayyaz.