Traders, transporters announce support for JI’s Aug 28 strike

Traders and transporters’ organisations in Karachi have declared their support for the August 28 countrywide strike announced by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI).

Karachi JI emir Monem Zafar along with a delegation visited the headquarters of the transporters’ association in Mauripur, while traders’ representatives visited the JI’s Karachi headquarters Idara Noor-e-Haq and announced their support in a consultative meeting.

Speaking on the occasion, Zafar said the JI had just deferred, not ended, the sit-in against the “government policies against the people”.

He said the JI would continue its struggle till its logical conclusion and the government would have to bow down before the just demands of the people of Pakistan.

He said the JI had dubbed the Tajir Dost Scheme as an anti-trade scheme. He demanded of the government to withdraw the scheme immediately.

He added that the government had already pressed all the segments of the society, including traders.

The traders’ representatives, including Attique Mir, announced their unconstitutional support for the strike and thanked the JI over its activism for traders and other segments of the society.

At the meeting with transporters, they shared their ordeal, including infrastructure woes and corruption by police and other governmental agencies.