QUETTA, Jan 19: Hundreds of rickshaw drivers held a protest meeting on Friday against the city authorities and traffic police officials. They warned that if their problems were not solved soon they would go on strike.

Hundreds of protesting drivers assembled on a lawn near the offices of the city district government here and raised slogans in favour of their demands.

National Rickshaw Association president Yousuf Khilji and Master Abdul Hamid spoke on the occasion. They said that owners and drivers of rickshaws had always cooperated with the authorities. They said they wanted to create problems neither for the government nor for the people, but it was their right to raise their voice against the highhandedness of the traffic police. Meanwhile in a statement, the spokesman for the traffic police denied the allegations.