CHARSADDA, March 9: Shopkeepers at a meeting held here on Sunday expressed concern over the notices issued by the DHQ hospital authorities about the demolition of their shops.

The meeting which was presided over by Ihsanullah Surki, President of the Muttahida Shopkeepers Association, maintained that shops were not the property of the hospital and therefore these notices were illegal.

The shopkeepers said that in case these shops were demolished hundreds of families would be deprived of their livelihood. The shopkeepers formed an action committee to pursue the matter and vowed that the traders community would never allow anyone to deprive them of their source of livelihood.