LAHORE, Nov 1: The All-Pakistan Goods Transporters Association held a protest rally from Ravi Link Road to Ravi Chowk on Friday as a heavy contingent of police did not allow them to march towards the Governor’s House.

Hundreds of truckers from Lahore and other parts of the province gathered at the Ravi Link Road general truck

stand to hold a rally against highway robberies, increase in tax on income from trucks, petrol and diesel prices and toll.

The police had put barricades on the rally’s way early in the morning and got adjacent roads vacated. Traffic from Yadgar Chowk to Bhati Chowk, however, remained suspended for over three hours.

Association president Mukhtar Ahmad said the truckers did not try to cross the barricades on an assurance by police highups that their meeting would be arranged with the governor.

If the government did not accept their demands by Nov 6, the truckers would observe a strike, he threatened.