Traffic Hindered: Transporters protest against abduction
Drivers, transporters raised slogans against law-enforcement agencies as well as the provincial government.
QUETTA:
Transporters blocked the National Highway near Sibi on Monday protesting against the kidnapping of four drivers the previous night. As a result, the flow of traffic between Balochistan and interior Sindh remains suspended. According to local officials, a group of armed men kidnapped four truck drivers, en route to Quetta from interior Sindh, near Bakhtyarabad in Bolan district late on Sunday night. One of the drivers, Khair Mohammad, later escaped from captivity. Whereabouts of others, identified as Mustafa Achakzai, Qader Achakzai and Gul Hassan Langov remain unknown. In their protest, drivers and transporters raised slogans against law-enforcement agencies as well as the provincial government for their failure to curb incidents of kidnappings on highways.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 3rd, 2012.
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