Daily use items: Traders worry about fuel shortages
RAWALPINDI: Barricades on vital roads heading to a twin cities have started inspiring a supply of fuel to a twin cities with citizens’ fearing cost hikes and shortages of a commodity in a entrance days.
“I saw petrol stations shutting adult as they are brief of fuel supplies. If a conditions does not improve, a petrol stations of Rawalpindi will be sealed by Monday night,” feared Irfan Mahmood, who works during a petrol siphon in Saddar.
He remarkable that some oil tankers have been stranded on GT Road and a motorway.
Further, transporters in a castle city were indignant over a seizure of their trucks and containers.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Shakeel Qureshi, ubiquitous secretary of a Rawalpindi Goods Carriers Association, pronounced that military had seized around 500 containers in Rawalpindi alone, adding that usually 150 were used in a city on Oct 28.
He pronounced that his organisation was formulation to reason a press discussion to lift their voice opposite a bootleg lien of their vehicles and containers. He remarkable that if their reports incited out be accurate, they would record a box opposite a supervision in a high court.
Qureshi remarkable that members of a organisation had been concerned in transporting all kinds of products from Karachi and other vital cities to a twin cities. He pronounced that seizure of a containers and blockades of roads would lead to supply shortages of essential equipment such as medicines, powdered milk, and other items.
He claimed that a Rawalpindi military still had to compensate around Rs2 million to a owners of containers that were seized during a PTI and PAT sits-in in 2014.
He indicted a military of forcibly seizing containers but unloading a products inside, causing additional waste to transporters and shipment owners.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st, 2016.
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