Bike service providers stage rally

MANSEHRA: A large number of motorcyclists providing cost-effective services to passengers in the city and its suburbs on Thursday staged a rally to demand the police department provide them with an opportunity to earn a respectable living for their families.

“The taxicab service union had moved an application with the police department seeking a ban on our service which if enforced would be the economic murder of hundreds of families,” one of the speakers told the rally outside the district police officer offices here.

The rally, which started from central Chowk, culminated outside the DPO office after marching through Abbottabad Road, Kashmir Road and Kutchehry Road.They raised slogans in support of their demands and against the taxicab union, which they said had failed to provide cost-effective travelling services.

They said that people were fed up with the high rents received by taxicabs here and when they provided them with cheaper travelling services they got infuriated and moved an application with the district police officer seeking a ban on their services.

“We are here to meet the DPO and apprise him of our problems and excessiveness which are being committed by the taxicabs drivers in the city and its suburbs,” one of the speakers said.